Daily Practice · A Level

April 2005 - A Level 5-a-day

Every A Level sheet published in April 2005, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.

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April 2005

30 sheets · 150 questions · A Level

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  1. 1st April 2005Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
  2. 2nd April 2005Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
  3. 3rd April 2005Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
  4. 4th April 2005What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
  5. 5th April 2005What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
  6. 6th April 2005What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
  7. 7th April 2005Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
  8. 8th April 2005Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
  9. 9th April 2005Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
  10. 10th April 2005Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
  11. 11th April 2005Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
  12. 12th April 2005What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
  13. 13th April 2005Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
  14. 14th April 2005Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
  15. 15th April 2005Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
  16. 16th April 2005A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
  17. 17th April 2005What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
  18. 18th April 2005Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
  19. 19th April 2005Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
  20. 20th April 2005What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
  21. 21st April 2005Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
  22. 22nd April 2005Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
  23. 23rd April 2005What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
  24. 24th April 2005Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
  25. 25th April 2005Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
  26. 26th April 2005How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
  27. 27th April 2005Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
  28. 28th April 2005A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
  29. 29th April 2005A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
  30. 30th April 2005How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?

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