Daily Practice · A Level
July 1978 5-a-day
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- 1st July 1978Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 2nd July 1978What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 3rd July 1978Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 4th July 1978Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 5th July 1978A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 6th July 1978Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 7th July 1978A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 8th July 1978A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 9th July 1978Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 10th July 1978A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 11th July 1978What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 12th July 1978The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 13th July 1978In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 14th July 1978Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 15th July 1978What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 16th July 1978Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 17th July 1978Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 18th July 1978In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 19th July 1978Calculate 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).
- 20th July 1978Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 21st July 1978Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 22nd July 1978Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 23rd July 1978Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 24th July 1978The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 25th July 1978A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 26th July 1978Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 27th July 1978Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 28th July 1978Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 29th July 1978Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 30th July 1978What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 31st July 1978Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).