Daily Practice · A Level
March 1988 5-a-day
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- 1st March 1988Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 2nd March 1988A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 3rd March 1988Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 4th March 1988A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 5th March 1988A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 6th March 1988Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 7th March 1988A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 8th March 1988What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 9th March 1988The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 10th March 1988In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 11th March 1988Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 12th March 1988What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 13th March 1988Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 14th March 1988Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 15th March 1988In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 16th March 1988Calculate 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).
- 17th March 1988Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 18th March 1988Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 19th March 1988Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 20th March 1988Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 21st March 1988The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 22nd March 1988A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 23rd March 1988Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 24th March 1988Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 25th March 1988Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 26th March 1988Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 27th March 1988What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 28th March 1988Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 29th March 1988What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 30th March 1988What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 31st March 1988Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?