Daily Practice · A Level
October 1972 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1972Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 2nd October 1972What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 3rd October 1972Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 4th October 1972A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 5th October 1972Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 6th October 1972A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 7th October 1972What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 8th October 1972Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 9th October 1972A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 10th October 1972What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 11th October 1972Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 12th October 1972Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 13th October 1972What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 14th October 1972Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 15th October 1972Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 16th October 1972Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 17th October 1972Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 18th October 1972A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 19th October 1972A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 20th October 1972Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 21st October 1972Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 22nd October 1972What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 23rd October 1972The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 24th October 1972In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 25th October 1972Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 26th October 1972What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 27th October 1972Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 28th October 1972Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 29th October 1972In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 30th October 1972Calculate the MLU in morphemes for these three utterances: 'I want juice' (3 morphemes), 'the dog barked' (4 morphemes, counting -ed as one), 'mummy gone now' (3 morphemes).
- 31st October 1972Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'