Daily Practice · A Level

February 2001 - A Level 5-a-day

Every A Level sheet published in February 2001, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.

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February 2001

28 sheets · 140 questions · A Level

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  1. 1st February 2001What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
  2. 2nd February 2001Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
  3. 3rd February 2001Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
  4. 4th February 2001In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
  5. 5th February 2001The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
  6. 6th February 2001What is 'hubris'?
  7. 7th February 2001What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
  8. 8th February 2001What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
  9. 9th February 2001Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
  10. 10th February 2001Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
  11. 11th February 2001Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
  12. 12th February 2001What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
  13. 13th February 2001What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
  14. 14th February 2001What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
  15. 15th February 2001Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
  16. 16th February 2001Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
  17. 17th February 2001Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
  18. 18th February 2001Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
  19. 19th February 2001Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
  20. 20th February 2001What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
  21. 21st February 2001Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
  22. 22nd February 2001Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
  23. 23rd February 2001Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
  24. 24th February 2001A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
  25. 25th February 2001What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
  26. 26th February 2001Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
  27. 27th February 2001Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
  28. 28th February 2001What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?

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