Daily Practice · A Level
July 1984 5-a-day
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- 1st July 1984Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 2nd July 1984A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 3rd July 1984True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 4th July 1984What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 5th July 1984Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 6th July 1984Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 7th July 1984What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 8th July 1984Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 9th July 1984Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 10th July 1984Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 11th July 1984A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 12th July 1984What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 13th July 1984Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 14th July 1984Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 15th July 1984In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 16th July 1984The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 17th July 1984What is 'hubris'?
- 18th July 1984What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 19th July 1984What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 20th July 1984Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 21st July 1984Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 22nd July 1984Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 23rd July 1984What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 24th July 1984What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 25th July 1984What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 26th July 1984Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 27th July 1984Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 28th July 1984Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 29th July 1984Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 30th July 1984Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 31st July 1984What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?