Daily Practice · A Level
November 1988 5-a-day
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- 1st November 1988Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 2nd November 1988Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 3rd November 1988True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 4th November 1988What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 5th November 1988Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 6th November 1988Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 7th November 1988What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 8th November 1988Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 9th November 1988A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 10th November 1988Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 11th November 1988A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 12th November 1988What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 13th November 1988Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 14th November 1988A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 15th November 1988In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 16th November 1988The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 17th November 1988What is 'hubris'?
- 18th November 1988What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 19th November 1988What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 20th November 1988Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 21st November 1988Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 22nd November 1988Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 23rd November 1988What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 24th November 1988What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 25th November 1988Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 26th November 1988Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 27th November 1988Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 28th November 1988Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 29th November 1988Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 30th November 1988Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.