Daily Practice · A Level

September 2005 - A Level 5-a-day

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

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September 2005

30 sheets · 150 questions · A Level

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  1. 1st September 2005Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
  2. 2nd September 2005Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
  3. 3rd September 2005What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
  4. 4th September 2005Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
  5. 5th September 2005Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
  6. 6th September 2005Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
  7. 7th September 2005A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
  8. 8th September 2005What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
  9. 9th September 2005Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
  10. 10th September 2005Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
  11. 11th September 2005What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
  12. 12th September 2005Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
  13. 13th September 2005Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
  14. 14th September 2005What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
  15. 15th September 2005Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
  16. 16th September 2005Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
  17. 17th September 2005Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
  18. 18th September 2005Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
  19. 19th September 2005A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
  20. 20th September 2005A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
  21. 21st September 2005What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
  22. 22nd September 2005Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
  23. 23rd September 2005What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
  24. 24th September 2005The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
  25. 25th September 2005In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
  26. 26th September 2005Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
  27. 27th September 2005What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
  28. 28th September 2005Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
  29. 29th September 2005Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
  30. 30th September 2005In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.

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