Daily Practice · A Level
March 2008 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in March 2008, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in March 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2008Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 2nd March 2008Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 3rd March 2008What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 4th March 2008Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 5th March 2008A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 6th March 2008Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 7th March 2008A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 8th March 2008What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 9th March 2008Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 10th March 2008A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 11th March 2008In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 12th March 2008The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 13th March 2008What is 'hubris'?
- 14th March 2008What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 15th March 2008What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 16th March 2008Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 17th March 2008Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 18th March 2008Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 19th March 2008What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 20th March 2008What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 21st March 2008Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 22nd March 2008Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 23rd March 2008Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 24th March 2008Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 25th March 2008Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 26th March 2008Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 27th March 2008What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 28th March 2008Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 29th March 2008Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 30th March 2008Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 31st March 2008A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?