Daily Practice · A Level
April 1995 - A Level 5-a-day
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- 1st April 1995What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 2nd April 1995Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 3rd April 1995Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 4th April 1995What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 5th April 1995Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 6th April 1995Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 7th April 1995The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 8th April 1995Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 9th April 1995A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 10th April 1995A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 11th April 1995Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 12th April 1995Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 13th April 1995What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 14th April 1995The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 15th April 1995In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 16th April 1995Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 17th April 1995What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 18th April 1995Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 19th April 1995A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 20th April 1995In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 21st April 1995Calculate 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).
- 22nd April 1995Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 23rd April 1995Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 24th April 1995A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 25th April 1995Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 26th April 1995The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 27th April 1995A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 28th April 1995Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 29th April 1995Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 30th April 1995Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.