Daily Practice · A Level
March 2002 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in March 2002, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in March 2002
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2002The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 2nd March 2002Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 3rd March 2002A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 4th March 2002A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 5th March 2002Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 6th March 2002Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 7th March 2002What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 8th March 2002The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 9th March 2002In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 10th March 2002Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 11th March 2002What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 12th March 2002Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 13th March 2002A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 14th March 2002In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 15th March 2002Calculate 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).
- 16th March 2002Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 17th March 2002Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 18th March 2002A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 19th March 2002Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 20th March 2002The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 21st March 2002A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 22nd March 2002Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 23rd March 2002Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 24th March 2002Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 25th March 2002Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 26th March 2002What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 27th March 2002Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 28th March 2002What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 29th March 2002Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 30th March 2002Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 31st March 2002True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.