Daily Practice · A Level
June 1990 5-a-day
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- 1st June 1990Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 2nd June 1990True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 3rd June 1990What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 4th June 1990Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 5th June 1990Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 6th June 1990What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 7th June 1990Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 8th June 1990The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 9th June 1990Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 10th June 1990A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 11th June 1990What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 12th June 1990Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 13th June 1990Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 14th June 1990In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 15th June 1990The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 16th June 1990What is 'hubris'?
- 17th June 1990What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 18th June 1990What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 19th June 1990Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 20th June 1990A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 21st June 1990Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 22nd June 1990What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 23rd June 1990What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 24th June 1990Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 25th June 1990A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 26th June 1990Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 27th June 1990Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 28th June 1990Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 29th June 1990Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 30th June 1990What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?