Daily Practice · A Level

July 2002 - A Level 5-a-day

Every A Level sheet published in July 2002, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.

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July 2002

31 sheets · 155 questions · A Level

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  1. 1st July 2002What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
  2. 2nd July 2002What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
  3. 3rd July 2002What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
  4. 4th July 2002Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
  5. 5th July 2002Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
  6. 6th July 2002Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
  7. 7th July 2002Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
  8. 8th July 2002Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
  9. 9th July 2002What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
  10. 10th July 2002Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
  11. 11th July 2002Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
  12. 12th July 2002Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
  13. 13th July 2002A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
  14. 14th July 2002What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
  15. 15th July 2002Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
  16. 16th July 2002Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
  17. 17th July 2002What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
  18. 18th July 2002Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
  19. 19th July 2002Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
  20. 20th July 2002What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
  21. 21st July 2002Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
  22. 22nd July 2002Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
  23. 23rd July 2002How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
  24. 24th July 2002Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
  25. 25th July 2002A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
  26. 26th July 2002A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
  27. 27th July 2002How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
  28. 28th July 2002Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
  29. 29th July 2002What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
  30. 30th July 2002The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
  31. 31st July 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.

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