Daily Practice · A Level
February 1977 5-a-day
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- 1st February 1977Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 2nd February 1977What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 3rd February 1977Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 4th February 1977The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 5th February 1977Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 6th February 1977A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 7th February 1977What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 8th February 1977Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 9th February 1977Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 10th February 1977What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 11th February 1977Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 12th February 1977Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 13th February 1977What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 14th February 1977Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 15th February 1977Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 16th February 1977A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 17th February 1977Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 18th February 1977A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 19th February 1977A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 20th February 1977Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 21st February 1977A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 22nd February 1977What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 23rd February 1977The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 24th February 1977In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 25th February 1977Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 26th February 1977What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 27th February 1977Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 28th February 1977Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?