Daily Practice · A Level
February 2000 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in February 2000, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in February 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2000Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 2nd February 2000What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 3rd February 2000Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 4th February 2000The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 5th February 2000Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 6th February 2000A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 7th February 2000What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 8th February 2000Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 9th February 2000Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 10th February 2000In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 11th February 2000The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 12th February 2000What is 'hubris'?
- 13th February 2000What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 14th February 2000What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 15th February 2000Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 16th February 2000A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 17th February 2000Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 18th February 2000What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 19th February 2000What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 20th February 2000Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 21st February 2000A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 22nd February 2000Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 23rd February 2000Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 24th February 2000Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 25th February 2000Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 26th February 2000What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 27th February 2000Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 28th February 2000Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 29th February 2000Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'