Daily Practice · A Level
September 1979 5-a-day
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- 1st September 1979What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 2nd September 1979Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 3rd September 1979A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 4th September 1979What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 5th September 1979Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 6th September 1979Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 7th September 1979What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 8th September 1979Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 9th September 1979Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 10th September 1979Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 11th September 1979Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 12th September 1979A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 13th September 1979A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 14th September 1979Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 15th September 1979Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 16th September 1979What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 17th September 1979The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 18th September 1979In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 19th September 1979Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 20th September 1979What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 21st September 1979Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 22nd September 1979Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 23rd September 1979In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 24th September 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).
- 25th September 1979Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 26th September 1979What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 27th September 1979Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 28th September 1979Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 29th September 1979The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 30th September 1979A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.