Daily Practice · A Level
January 1990 5-a-day
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- 1st January 1990Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 2nd January 1990Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 3rd January 1990A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 4th January 1990What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 5th January 1990Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 6th January 1990What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 7th January 1990Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 8th January 1990A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 9th January 1990True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 10th January 1990What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 11th January 1990Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 12th January 1990Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 13th January 1990What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 14th January 1990Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 15th January 1990Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 16th January 1990Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 17th January 1990A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 18th January 1990What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 19th January 1990Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 20th January 1990Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 21st January 1990In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 22nd January 1990The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 23rd January 1990What is 'hubris'?
- 24th January 1990What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 25th January 1990What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 26th January 1990Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 27th January 1990Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 28th January 1990Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 29th January 1990What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 30th January 1990What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 31st January 1990What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'