Daily Practice · A Level
May 1979 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1979How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 2nd May 1979In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 3rd May 1979Calculate 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).
- 4th May 1979Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 5th May 1979How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 6th May 1979Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 7th May 1979Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 8th May 1979The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 9th May 1979A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 10th May 1979Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 11th May 1979Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 12th May 1979Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 13th May 1979Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 14th May 1979What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 15th May 1979Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 16th May 1979What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 17th May 1979Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 18th May 1979Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 19th May 1979True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 20th May 1979What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 21st May 1979Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 22nd May 1979Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 23rd May 1979What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 24th May 1979Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 25th May 1979The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 26th May 1979Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 27th May 1979A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 28th May 1979What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 29th May 1979Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 30th May 1979Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 31st May 1979In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?