Daily Practice · A Level
October 2007 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in October 2007, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in October 2007
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2007Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 2nd October 2007What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 3rd October 2007Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 4th October 2007What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 5th October 2007Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 6th October 2007Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 7th October 2007True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 8th October 2007What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 9th October 2007Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 10th October 2007Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 11th October 2007What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 12th October 2007Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 13th October 2007Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 14th October 2007Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 15th October 2007A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 16th October 2007What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 17th October 2007What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 18th October 2007Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 19th October 2007In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 20th October 2007The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 21st October 2007What is 'hubris'?
- 22nd October 2007What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 23rd October 2007What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 24th October 2007Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 25th October 2007Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 26th October 2007Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 27th October 2007What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 28th October 2007What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 29th October 2007Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 30th October 2007Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 31st October 2007Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'