Daily Practice · A Level
May 1987 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1987Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 2nd May 1987Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 3rd May 1987Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 4th May 1987Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 5th May 1987What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 6th May 1987Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 7th May 1987Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 8th May 1987Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 9th May 1987A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 10th May 1987What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 11th May 1987Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 12th May 1987Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 13th May 1987What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 14th May 1987Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 15th May 1987Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 16th May 1987What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 17th May 1987Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 18th May 1987Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 19th May 1987How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 20th May 1987Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 21st May 1987A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 22nd May 1987A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 23rd May 1987How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 24th May 1987Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 25th May 1987What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 26th May 1987The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 27th May 1987In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 28th May 1987Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 29th May 1987What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 30th May 1987Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 31st May 1987Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'