Daily Practice · A Level
May 2001 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in May 2001, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in May 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2001Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 2nd May 2001Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 3rd May 2001What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 4th May 2001Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 5th May 2001Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 6th May 2001Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 7th May 2001A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 8th May 2001What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 9th May 2001What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 10th May 2001Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 11th May 2001What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 12th May 2001Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 13th May 2001Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 14th May 2001What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 15th May 2001Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 16th May 2001Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 17th May 2001Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 18th May 2001Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 19th May 2001A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 20th May 2001A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 21st May 2001Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 22nd May 2001Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 23rd May 2001What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 24th May 2001The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 25th May 2001In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 26th May 2001Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 27th May 2001What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 28th May 2001Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 29th May 2001How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 30th May 2001In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 31st May 2001Calculate the MLU in morphemes for these three utterances: 'I want juice' (3 morphemes), 'the dog barked' (4 morphemes, counting -ed as one), 'mummy gone now' (3 morphemes).