Daily Practice · A Level
September 2000 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in September 2000, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in September 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2000True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 2nd September 2000What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 3rd September 2000Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 4th September 2000Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 5th September 2000What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 6th September 2000Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 7th September 2000Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 8th September 2000Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 9th September 2000A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 10th September 2000What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 11th September 2000Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 12th September 2000Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 13th September 2000In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 14th September 2000The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 15th September 2000What is 'hubris'?
- 16th September 2000What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 17th September 2000What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 18th September 2000Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 19th September 2000How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 20th September 2000Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 21st September 2000What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 22nd September 2000What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 23rd September 2000How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 24th September 2000Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 25th September 2000Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 26th September 2000Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 27th September 2000Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 28th September 2000Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 29th September 2000What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 30th September 2000Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.