Daily Practice · A Level
February 1986 5-a-day
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- 1st February 1986Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 2nd February 1986Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 3rd February 1986What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 4th February 1986Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 5th February 1986A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 6th February 1986Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 7th February 1986A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 8th February 1986What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 9th February 1986Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 10th February 1986A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 11th February 1986In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 12th February 1986The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 13th February 1986What is 'hubris'?
- 14th February 1986What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 15th February 1986What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 16th February 1986Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 17th February 1986Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 18th February 1986Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 19th February 1986What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 20th February 1986What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 21st February 1986Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 22nd February 1986Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 23rd February 1986Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 24th February 1986Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 25th February 1986Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 26th February 1986Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 27th February 1986What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 28th February 1986Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.