Daily Practice · A Level
June 2005 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in June 2005, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in June 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2005A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 2nd June 2005Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 3rd June 2005A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 4th June 2005What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 5th June 2005Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 6th June 2005A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 7th June 2005In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 8th June 2005The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 9th June 2005What is 'hubris'?
- 10th June 2005What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 11th June 2005What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 12th June 2005Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 13th June 2005Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 14th June 2005Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 15th June 2005What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 16th June 2005What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 17th June 2005Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 18th June 2005Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 19th June 2005Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 20th June 2005Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 21st June 2005Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 22nd June 2005Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 23rd June 2005What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 24th June 2005Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 25th June 2005Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 26th June 2005Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 27th June 2005A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 28th June 2005What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 29th June 2005What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 30th June 2005Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?