Daily Practice · A Level
November 1990 5-a-day
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- 1st November 1990A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 2nd November 1990What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 3rd November 1990How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 4th November 1990Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 5th November 1990In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 6th November 1990The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 7th November 1990What is 'hubris'?
- 8th November 1990What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 9th November 1990What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 10th November 1990Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 11th November 1990Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 12th November 1990Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 13th November 1990What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 14th November 1990What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 15th November 1990Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 16th November 1990Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 17th November 1990Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 18th November 1990Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 19th November 1990Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 20th November 1990Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 21st November 1990What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 22nd November 1990Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 23rd November 1990The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 24th November 1990Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 25th November 1990A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 26th November 1990What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 27th November 1990Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 28th November 1990Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 29th November 1990What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 30th November 1990Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.