Daily Practice · A Level
December 1979 5-a-day
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- 1st December 1979What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 2nd December 1979Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 3rd December 1979Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 4th December 1979In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 5th December 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).
- 6th December 1979Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 7th December 1979Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 8th December 1979Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 9th December 1979Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 10th December 1979The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 11th December 1979A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 12th December 1979Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 13th December 1979Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 14th December 1979Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 15th December 1979Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 16th December 1979What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 17th December 1979Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 18th December 1979What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 19th December 1979What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 20th December 1979Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 21st December 1979True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 22nd December 1979What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 23rd December 1979Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 24th December 1979Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 25th December 1979What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 26th December 1979Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 27th December 1979Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 28th December 1979Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 29th December 1979A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 30th December 1979What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 31st December 1979Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.