Daily Practice · A Level
July 1976 5-a-day
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- 1st July 1976What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 2nd July 1976Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 3rd July 1976Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 4th July 1976Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 5th July 1976A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 6th July 1976What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 7th July 1976What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 8th July 1976Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 9th July 1976What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 10th July 1976Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 11th July 1976Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 12th July 1976What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 13th July 1976Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 14th July 1976Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 15th July 1976Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 16th July 1976Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 17th July 1976A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 18th July 1976A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 19th July 1976Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 20th July 1976Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 21st July 1976What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 22nd July 1976The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 23rd July 1976In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 24th July 1976Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 25th July 1976What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 26th July 1976Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 27th July 1976How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 28th July 1976In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 29th July 1976Calculate 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).
- 30th July 1976Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 31st July 1976How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?