Daily Practice · A Level
March 1979 5-a-day
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- 1st March 1979Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 2nd March 1979The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 3rd March 1979What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 4th March 1979Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 5th March 1979What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 6th March 1979Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 7th March 1979Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 8th March 1979True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 9th March 1979What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 10th March 1979Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 11th March 1979Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 12th March 1979What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 13th March 1979Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 14th March 1979A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 15th March 1979Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 16th March 1979A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 17th March 1979What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 18th March 1979Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 19th March 1979A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 20th March 1979In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 21st March 1979The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 22nd March 1979What is 'hubris'?
- 23rd March 1979What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 24th March 1979What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 25th March 1979Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 26th March 1979Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 27th March 1979Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 28th March 1979What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 29th March 1979What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 30th March 1979Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 31st March 1979Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.