Daily Practice · A Level
November 1980 5-a-day
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- 1st November 1980What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 2nd November 1980Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 3rd November 1980Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 4th November 1980Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 5th November 1980A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 6th November 1980What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 7th November 1980Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 8th November 1980Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 9th November 1980What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 10th November 1980Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 11th November 1980Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 12th November 1980What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 13th November 1980Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 14th November 1980Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 15th November 1980Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 16th November 1980Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 17th November 1980A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 18th November 1980A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 19th November 1980What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 20th November 1980Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 21st November 1980What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 22nd November 1980The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 23rd November 1980In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 24th November 1980Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 25th November 1980What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 26th November 1980Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 27th November 1980Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 28th November 1980In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 29th November 1980Calculate 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).
- 30th November 1980Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'