Daily Practice · A Level
April 2000 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in April 2000, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in April 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2000Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 2nd April 2000Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 3rd April 2000Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 4th April 2000How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 5th April 2000What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 6th April 2000Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 7th April 2000What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 8th April 2000How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 9th April 2000Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 10th April 2000True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 11th April 2000What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 12th April 2000Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 13th April 2000Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 14th April 2000What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 15th April 2000Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 16th April 2000Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 17th April 2000Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 18th April 2000A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 19th April 2000What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 20th April 2000Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 21st April 2000Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 22nd April 2000In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 23rd April 2000The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 24th April 2000What is 'hubris'?
- 25th April 2000What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 26th April 2000What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 27th April 2000Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 28th April 2000The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 29th April 2000Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 30th April 2000What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?