Daily Practice · A Level
May 1975 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1975What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 2nd May 1975Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 3rd May 1975Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 4th May 1975What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 5th May 1975Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 6th May 1975Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 7th May 1975What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 8th May 1975Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 9th May 1975Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 10th May 1975Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 11th May 1975Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 12th May 1975A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 13th May 1975A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 14th May 1975What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 15th May 1975Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 16th May 1975What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 17th May 1975The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 18th May 1975In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 19th May 1975Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 20th May 1975What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 21st May 1975Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 22nd May 1975Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 23rd May 1975In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 24th May 1975Calculate 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).
- 25th May 1975Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 26th May 1975Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 27th May 1975Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 28th May 1975Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 29th May 1975The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 30th May 1975A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 31st May 1975Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.