Daily Practice · A Level
September 1991 - A Level 5-a-day
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- 1st September 1991Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 2nd September 1991Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 3rd September 1991Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 4th September 1991Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 5th September 1991What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 6th September 1991Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 7th September 1991Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 8th September 1991Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 9th September 1991A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 10th September 1991What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 11th September 1991What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 12th September 1991Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 13th September 1991What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 14th September 1991Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 15th September 1991Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 16th September 1991What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 17th September 1991Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 18th September 1991Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 19th September 1991Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 20th September 1991Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 21st September 1991A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 22nd September 1991A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 23rd September 1991Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 24th September 1991Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 25th September 1991What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 26th September 1991The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 27th September 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.
- 28th September 1991Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 29th September 1991What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 30th September 1991Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.