Daily Practice · A Level
August 1978 5-a-day
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- 1st August 1978What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 2nd August 1978What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 3rd August 1978Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 4th August 1978True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 5th August 1978What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 6th August 1978Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 7th August 1978Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 8th August 1978What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 9th August 1978Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 10th August 1978Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 11th August 1978Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 12th August 1978A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 13th August 1978What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 14th August 1978Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 15th August 1978Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 16th August 1978In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 17th August 1978The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 18th August 1978What is 'hubris'?
- 19th August 1978What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 20th August 1978What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 21st August 1978Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 22nd August 1978How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 23rd August 1978Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 24th August 1978What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 25th August 1978What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 26th August 1978How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 27th August 1978Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 28th August 1978Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 29th August 1978Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 30th August 1978Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 31st August 1978Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.