Daily Practice · A Level
June 1993 - A Level 5-a-day
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- 1st June 1993What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 2nd June 1993What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 3rd June 1993Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 4th June 1993The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 5th June 1993Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 6th June 1993What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 7th June 1993What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 8th June 1993Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 9th June 1993Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 10th June 1993Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 11th June 1993Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 12th June 1993Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 13th June 1993Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 14th June 1993What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 15th June 1993Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 16th June 1993A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 17th June 1993Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 18th June 1993A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 19th June 1993What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 20th June 1993Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 21st June 1993A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 22nd June 1993What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 23rd June 1993Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 24th June 1993Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 25th June 1993What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 26th June 1993Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 27th June 1993Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 28th June 1993Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 29th June 1993Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 30th June 1993A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?