Daily Practice · A Level
December 1980 5-a-day
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- 1st December 1980Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 2nd December 1980Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 3rd December 1980Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 4th December 1980The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 5th December 1980A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 6th December 1980Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 7th December 1980Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 8th December 1980Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 9th December 1980How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 10th December 1980What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 11th December 1980Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 12th December 1980What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 13th December 1980How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 14th December 1980Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 15th December 1980True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 16th December 1980What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 17th December 1980Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 18th December 1980Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 19th December 1980What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 20th December 1980Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 21st December 1980Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 22nd December 1980Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 23rd December 1980A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 24th December 1980What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 25th December 1980Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 26th December 1980Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 27th December 1980In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 28th December 1980The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 29th December 1980What is 'hubris'?
- 30th December 1980What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 31st December 1980What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?