Daily Practice · A Level
October 1982 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1982Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 2nd October 1982A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 3rd October 1982What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 4th October 1982Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 5th October 1982Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 6th October 1982In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 7th October 1982The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 8th October 1982What is 'hubris'?
- 9th October 1982What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 10th October 1982What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 11th October 1982Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 12th October 1982How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 13th October 1982Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 14th October 1982What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 15th October 1982What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 16th October 1982How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 17th October 1982Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 18th October 1982Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 19th October 1982Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 20th October 1982Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 21st October 1982Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 22nd October 1982What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 23rd October 1982Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 24th October 1982Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 25th October 1982Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 26th October 1982A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 27th October 1982What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 28th October 1982Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 29th October 1982Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 30th October 1982What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 31st October 1982Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.