Daily Practice · A Level
October 1995 - A Level 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1995Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 2nd October 1995What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 3rd October 1995Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 4th October 1995A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 5th October 1995Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 6th October 1995A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 7th October 1995What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 8th October 1995Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 9th October 1995A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 10th October 1995In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 11th October 1995The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 12th October 1995What is 'hubris'?
- 13th October 1995What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 14th October 1995What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 15th October 1995Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 16th October 1995Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 17th October 1995Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 18th October 1995What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 19th October 1995What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 20th October 1995Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 21st October 1995Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 22nd October 1995Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 23rd October 1995Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 24th October 1995Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 25th October 1995Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 26th October 1995What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 27th October 1995Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 28th October 1995Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 29th October 1995Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 30th October 1995A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 31st October 1995What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?