Daily Practice · A Level
September 2003 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in September 2003, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in September 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2003What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 2nd September 2003What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 3rd September 2003Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 4th September 2003Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 5th September 2003Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 6th September 2003What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 7th September 2003What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 8th September 2003Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 9th September 2003Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 10th September 2003Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 11th September 2003Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 12th September 2003Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 13th September 2003Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 14th September 2003What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 15th September 2003Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 16th September 2003How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 17th September 2003Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 18th September 2003A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 19th September 2003What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 20th September 2003How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 21st September 2003Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 22nd September 2003What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 23rd September 2003Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 24th September 2003Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 25th September 2003What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 26th September 2003Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 27th September 2003Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 28th September 2003Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 29th September 2003Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 30th September 2003A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?