Daily Practice · A Level
October 2004 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in October 2004, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in October 2004
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2004Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 2nd October 2004What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 3rd October 2004Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 4th October 2004Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 5th October 2004In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 6th October 2004Calculate 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).
- 7th October 2004Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 8th October 2004Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 9th October 2004Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 10th October 2004Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 11th October 2004The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 12th October 2004A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 13th October 2004Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 14th October 2004Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 15th October 2004Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 16th October 2004Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 17th October 2004What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 18th October 2004Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 19th October 2004What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 20th October 2004What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 21st October 2004Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 22nd October 2004True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 23rd October 2004What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 24th October 2004Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 25th October 2004Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 26th October 2004What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 27th October 2004Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 28th October 2004Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 29th October 2004Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 30th October 2004A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 31st October 2004What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?