Daily Practice · A Level
February 1973 5-a-day
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- 1st February 1973Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 2nd February 1973Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 3rd February 1973A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 4th February 1973What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 5th February 1973Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 6th February 1973Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 7th February 1973In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 8th February 1973The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 9th February 1973What is 'hubris'?
- 10th February 1973What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 11th February 1973What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 12th February 1973Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 13th February 1973How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 14th February 1973Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 15th February 1973What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 16th February 1973What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 17th February 1973How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 18th February 1973Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 19th February 1973Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 20th February 1973Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 21st February 1973Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 22nd February 1973Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 23rd February 1973What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 24th February 1973Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 25th February 1973Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 26th February 1973Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 27th February 1973A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 28th February 1973What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?