Daily Practice · A Level
May 1988 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1988Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 2nd May 1988Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 3rd May 1988A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 4th May 1988What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 5th May 1988Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 6th May 1988Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 7th May 1988What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 8th May 1988Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 9th May 1988Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 10th May 1988What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 11th May 1988Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 12th May 1988Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 13th May 1988The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 14th May 1988Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 15th May 1988A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 16th May 1988A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 17th May 1988Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 18th May 1988Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 19th May 1988What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 20th May 1988The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 21st May 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.
- 22nd May 1988Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 23rd May 1988What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 24th May 1988Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 25th May 1988A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 26th May 1988In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 27th May 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).
- 28th May 1988Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 29th May 1988Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 30th May 1988A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 31st May 1988Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.