Daily Practice · A Level
August 1984 5-a-day
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- 1st August 1984Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 2nd August 1984Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 3rd August 1984Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 4th August 1984A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 5th August 1984What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 6th August 1984Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 7th August 1984Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 8th August 1984What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 9th August 1984Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 10th August 1984Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 11th August 1984What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 12th August 1984Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 13th August 1984Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 14th August 1984How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 15th August 1984Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 16th August 1984A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 17th August 1984A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 18th August 1984How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 19th August 1984Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 20th August 1984What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 21st August 1984The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 22nd August 1984In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 23rd August 1984Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 24th August 1984What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 25th August 1984Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 26th August 1984Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 27th August 1984In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 28th August 1984Calculate 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).
- 29th August 1984Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 30th August 1984Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 31st August 1984Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'