Daily Practice · A Level
October 2005 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in October 2005, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in October 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2005Calculate 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).
- 2nd October 2005Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 3rd October 2005Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 4th October 2005Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 5th October 2005Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 6th October 2005The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 7th October 2005A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 8th October 2005Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 9th October 2005Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 10th October 2005Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 11th October 2005How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 12th October 2005What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 13th October 2005Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 14th October 2005What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 15th October 2005How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 16th October 2005Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 17th October 2005True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 18th October 2005What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 19th October 2005Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 20th October 2005Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 21st October 2005What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 22nd October 2005Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 23rd October 2005Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 24th October 2005Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 25th October 2005A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 26th October 2005What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 27th October 2005Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 28th October 2005Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 29th October 2005In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 30th October 2005The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 31st October 2005What is 'hubris'?