Daily Practice · A Level
January 1997 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in January 1997, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in January 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1997Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 2nd January 1997Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 3rd January 1997Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 4th January 1997A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 5th January 1997What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 6th January 1997Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 7th January 1997Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 8th January 1997What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 9th January 1997Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 10th January 1997Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 11th January 1997What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 12th January 1997Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 13th January 1997Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 14th January 1997How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 15th January 1997Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 16th January 1997A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 17th January 1997A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 18th January 1997How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 19th January 1997Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 20th January 1997What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 21st January 1997The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 22nd January 1997In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 23rd January 1997Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 24th January 1997What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 25th January 1997Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 26th January 1997Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 27th January 1997In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 28th January 1997Calculate 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).
- 29th January 1997Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 30th January 1997Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 31st January 1997Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'