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June 1980

30 sheets · 150 questions · A Level

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  1. 1st June 1980Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
  2. 2nd June 1980What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
  3. 3rd June 1980What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
  4. 4th June 1980What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
  5. 5th June 1980Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
  6. 6th June 1980Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
  7. 7th June 1980Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
  8. 8th June 1980Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
  9. 9th June 1980Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
  10. 10th June 1980What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
  11. 11th June 1980Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
  12. 12th June 1980Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
  13. 13th June 1980Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
  14. 14th June 1980A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
  15. 15th June 1980What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
  16. 16th June 1980Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
  17. 17th June 1980Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
  18. 18th June 1980What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
  19. 19th June 1980Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
  20. 20th June 1980Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
  21. 21st June 1980What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
  22. 22nd June 1980Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
  23. 23rd June 1980Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
  24. 24th June 1980How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
  25. 25th June 1980Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
  26. 26th June 1980A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
  27. 27th June 1980A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
  28. 28th June 1980How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
  29. 29th June 1980Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
  30. 30th June 1980What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?

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