Daily Practice · A Level
April 1987 5-a-day
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- 1st April 1987A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 2nd April 1987What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 3rd April 1987Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 4th April 1987What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 5th April 1987Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 6th April 1987A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 7th April 1987True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 8th April 1987What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 9th April 1987Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 10th April 1987Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 11th April 1987What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 12th April 1987Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 13th April 1987Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 14th April 1987Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 15th April 1987A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 16th April 1987What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 17th April 1987Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 18th April 1987Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 19th April 1987In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 20th April 1987The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 21st April 1987What is 'hubris'?
- 22nd April 1987What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 23rd April 1987What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 24th April 1987Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 25th April 1987Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 26th April 1987Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 27th April 1987What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 28th April 1987What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 29th April 1987What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 30th April 1987Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?