Daily Practice · A Level
April 2006 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in April 2006, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in April 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2006How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 2nd April 2006Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 3rd April 2006Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 4th April 2006Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 5th April 2006Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 6th April 2006Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 7th April 2006What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 8th April 2006Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 9th April 2006Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 10th April 2006Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 11th April 2006A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 12th April 2006What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 13th April 2006Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 14th April 2006Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 15th April 2006What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 16th April 2006Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 17th April 2006Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 18th April 2006What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 19th April 2006Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 20th April 2006Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 21st April 2006The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 22nd April 2006Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 23rd April 2006A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 24th April 2006A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 25th April 2006Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 26th April 2006Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 27th April 2006What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 28th April 2006The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 29th April 2006In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 30th April 2006Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.