Daily Practice · A Level
July 1991 - A Level 5-a-day
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- 1st July 1991Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 2nd July 1991Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 3rd July 1991What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 4th July 1991Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 5th July 1991Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 6th July 1991What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 7th July 1991Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 8th July 1991Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 9th July 1991How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 10th July 1991Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 11th July 1991A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 12th July 1991A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 13th July 1991How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 14th July 1991Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 15th July 1991What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 16th July 1991The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 17th July 1991In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 18th July 1991Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 19th July 1991What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 20th July 1991Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 21st July 1991Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 22nd July 1991In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 23rd July 1991Calculate the MLU in morphemes for these three utterances: 'I want juice' (3 morphemes), 'the dog barked' (4 morphemes, counting -ed as one), 'mummy gone now' (3 morphemes).
- 24th July 1991Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 25th July 1991Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 26th July 1991Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 27th July 1991Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 28th July 1991The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 29th July 1991A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 30th July 1991Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 31st July 1991Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'