Daily Practice · A Level
July 1983 5-a-day
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- 1st July 1983Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 2nd July 1983Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 3rd July 1983Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 4th July 1983What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 5th July 1983Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 6th July 1983What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 7th July 1983Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 8th July 1983Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 9th July 1983True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 10th July 1983What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 11th July 1983Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 12th July 1983Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 13th July 1983What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 14th July 1983Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 15th July 1983The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 16th July 1983Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 17th July 1983A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 18th July 1983What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 19th July 1983Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 20th July 1983Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 21st July 1983In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 22nd July 1983The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 23rd July 1983What is 'hubris'?
- 24th July 1983What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 25th July 1983What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 26th July 1983Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 27th July 1983A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 28th July 1983Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 29th July 1983What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 30th July 1983What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 31st July 1983Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.