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  1. 1st July 1974Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
  2. 2nd July 1974How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
  3. 3rd July 1974Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
  4. 4th July 1974What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
  5. 5th July 1974What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
  6. 6th July 1974How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
  7. 7th July 1974Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
  8. 8th July 1974Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
  9. 9th July 1974Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
  10. 10th July 1974Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
  11. 11th July 1974Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
  12. 12th July 1974What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
  13. 13th July 1974Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
  14. 14th July 1974Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
  15. 15th July 1974Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
  16. 16th July 1974A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
  17. 17th July 1974What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
  18. 18th July 1974Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
  19. 19th July 1974Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
  20. 20th July 1974What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
  21. 21st July 1974Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
  22. 22nd July 1974Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
  23. 23rd July 1974What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
  24. 24th July 1974Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
  25. 25th July 1974Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
  26. 26th July 1974The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
  27. 27th July 1974Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
  28. 28th July 1974A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
  29. 29th July 1974A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
  30. 30th July 1974Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
  31. 31st July 1974Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.

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