Daily Practice · A Level
December 1986 5-a-day
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- 1st December 1986Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 2nd December 1986How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 3rd December 1986Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 4th December 1986What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 5th December 1986What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 6th December 1986How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 7th December 1986Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 8th December 1986Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 9th December 1986Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 10th December 1986Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 11th December 1986Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 12th December 1986What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 13th December 1986Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 14th December 1986Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 15th December 1986Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 16th December 1986A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 17th December 1986What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 18th December 1986Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 19th December 1986Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 20th December 1986What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 21st December 1986Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 22nd December 1986Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 23rd December 1986What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 24th December 1986Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 25th December 1986Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 26th December 1986The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 27th December 1986Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 28th December 1986A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 29th December 1986A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 30th December 1986Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 31st December 1986Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.