Daily Practice · A Level
June 1975 5-a-day
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- 1st June 1975Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 2nd June 1975Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 3rd June 1975How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 4th June 1975What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 5th June 1975Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 6th June 1975What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 7th June 1975How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 8th June 1975Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 9th June 1975True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 10th June 1975What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 11th June 1975Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 12th June 1975Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 13th June 1975What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 14th June 1975Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 15th June 1975Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 16th June 1975Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 17th June 1975A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 18th June 1975What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 19th June 1975Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 20th June 1975Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 21st June 1975In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 22nd June 1975The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 23rd June 1975What is 'hubris'?
- 24th June 1975What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 25th June 1975What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 26th June 1975Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 27th June 1975The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 28th June 1975Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 29th June 1975What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 30th June 1975What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?