Daily Practice · A Level
September 1990 5-a-day
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- 1st September 1990Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 2nd September 1990What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 3rd September 1990What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 4th September 1990Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 5th September 1990Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 6th September 1990Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 7th September 1990Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 8th September 1990Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 9th September 1990Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 10th September 1990What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 11th September 1990Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 12th September 1990A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 13th September 1990Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 14th September 1990A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 15th September 1990What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 16th September 1990Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 17th September 1990A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 18th September 1990What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 19th September 1990Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 20th September 1990Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 21st September 1990What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 22nd September 1990Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 23rd September 1990Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 24th September 1990Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 25th September 1990Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 26th September 1990A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 27th September 1990A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 28th September 1990Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 29th September 1990Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 30th September 1990What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?