Daily Practice · A Level
May 2003 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in May 2003, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in May 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2003What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 2nd May 2003Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 3rd May 2003Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 4th May 2003What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 5th May 2003Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 6th May 2003Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 7th May 2003A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 8th May 2003Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 9th May 2003A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 10th May 2003A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 11th May 2003Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 12th May 2003A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 13th May 2003What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 14th May 2003The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 15th May 2003In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 16th May 2003Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 17th May 2003What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 18th May 2003Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 19th May 2003Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 20th May 2003In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 21st May 2003Calculate 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).
- 22nd May 2003Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 23rd May 2003Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 24th May 2003Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 25th May 2003Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 26th May 2003The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 27th May 2003A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 28th May 2003Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 29th May 2003Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 30th May 2003Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 31st May 2003Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.