Daily Practice · A Level
July 2003 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in July 2003, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in July 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2003Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 2nd July 2003Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 3rd July 2003Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 4th July 2003What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 5th July 2003Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 6th July 2003Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 7th July 2003Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 8th July 2003A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 9th July 2003What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 10th July 2003Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 11th July 2003Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 12th July 2003What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 13th July 2003Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 14th July 2003Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 15th July 2003What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 16th July 2003Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 17th July 2003Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 18th July 2003The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 19th July 2003Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 20th July 2003A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 21st July 2003A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 22nd July 2003Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 23rd July 2003Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 24th July 2003What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 25th July 2003The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 26th July 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.
- 27th July 2003Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 28th July 2003What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 29th July 2003Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 30th July 2003A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 31st July 2003In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.