Daily Practice · A Level
January 1986 5-a-day
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- 1st January 1986Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 2nd January 1986A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 3rd January 1986A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 4th January 1986How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 5th January 1986Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 6th January 1986What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 7th January 1986The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 8th January 1986In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 9th January 1986Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 10th January 1986What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 11th January 1986Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 12th January 1986Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 13th January 1986In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 14th January 1986Calculate 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).
- 15th January 1986Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 16th January 1986Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 17th January 1986Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 18th January 1986Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 19th January 1986The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 20th January 1986A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 21st January 1986Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 22nd January 1986Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 23rd January 1986Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 24th January 1986The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 25th January 1986What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 26th January 1986Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 27th January 1986What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 28th January 1986Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 29th January 1986Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 30th January 1986True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 31st January 1986What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?