Daily Practice · A Level

July 1999 - A Level 5-a-day

Every A Level sheet published in July 1999, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.

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July 1999

31 sheets · 155 questions · A Level

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  1. 1st July 1999What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
  2. 2nd July 1999Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
  3. 3rd July 1999Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
  4. 4th July 1999Define 'extended metaphor'.
  5. 5th July 1999A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
  6. 6th July 1999What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
  7. 7th July 1999What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
  8. 8th July 1999Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
  9. 9th July 1999In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
  10. 10th July 1999The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
  11. 11th July 1999What is 'hubris'?
  12. 12th July 1999What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
  13. 13th July 1999What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
  14. 14th July 1999Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
  15. 15th July 1999Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
  16. 16th July 1999Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
  17. 17th July 1999What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
  18. 18th July 1999What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
  19. 19th July 1999Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
  20. 20th July 1999Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
  21. 21st July 1999Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
  22. 22nd July 1999Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
  23. 23rd July 1999Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
  24. 24th July 1999Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
  25. 25th July 1999What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
  26. 26th July 1999Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
  27. 27th July 1999How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
  28. 28th July 1999Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
  29. 29th July 1999A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
  30. 30th July 1999What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
  31. 31st July 1999How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?

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