Daily Practice · A Level
September 2006 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in September 2006, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in September 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2006Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 2nd September 2006A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 3rd September 2006What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 4th September 2006Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 5th September 2006Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 6th September 2006What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 7th September 2006Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 8th September 2006Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 9th September 2006What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 10th September 2006Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 11th September 2006Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 12th September 2006How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 13th September 2006Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 14th September 2006A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 15th September 2006A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 16th September 2006How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 17th September 2006Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 18th September 2006What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 19th September 2006The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 20th September 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.
- 21st September 2006Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 22nd September 2006What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 23rd September 2006Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 24th September 2006Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 25th September 2006In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 26th September 2006Calculate 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).
- 27th September 2006Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 28th September 2006Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 29th September 2006Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 30th September 2006Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.