Daily Practice · A Level
February 1999 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in February 1999, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in February 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1999Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 2nd February 1999Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 3rd February 1999True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 4th February 1999What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 5th February 1999Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 6th February 1999Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 7th February 1999What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 8th February 1999Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 9th February 1999How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 10th February 1999Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 11th February 1999A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 12th February 1999What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 13th February 1999How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 14th February 1999Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 15th February 1999In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 16th February 1999The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 17th February 1999What is 'hubris'?
- 18th February 1999What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 19th February 1999What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 20th February 1999Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 21st February 1999Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 22nd February 1999Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 23rd February 1999What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 24th February 1999What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 25th February 1999Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 26th February 1999Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 27th February 1999Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 28th February 1999Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.