Daily Practice · A Level
October 1993 - A Level 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1993Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 2nd October 1993Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 3rd October 1993What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 4th October 1993Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 5th October 1993What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 6th October 1993What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 7th October 1993Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 8th October 1993True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 9th October 1993What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 10th October 1993Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 11th October 1993Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 12th October 1993What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 13th October 1993Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 14th October 1993Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 15th October 1993Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 16th October 1993A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 17th October 1993What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 18th October 1993Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 19th October 1993Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 20th October 1993In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 21st October 1993The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 22nd October 1993What is 'hubris'?
- 23rd October 1993What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 24th October 1993What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 25th October 1993Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 26th October 1993How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 27th October 1993Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 28th October 1993What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 29th October 1993What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 30th October 1993How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 31st October 1993Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.