Daily Practice · A Level
August 2008 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in August 2008, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in August 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2008Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 2nd August 2008In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 3rd August 2008The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 4th August 2008What is 'hubris'?
- 5th August 2008What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 6th August 2008What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 7th August 2008Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 8th August 2008The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 9th August 2008Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 10th August 2008What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 11th August 2008What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 12th August 2008Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 13th August 2008Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 14th August 2008Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 15th August 2008Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 16th August 2008Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 17th August 2008Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 18th August 2008What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 19th August 2008Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 20th August 2008A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 21st August 2008Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 22nd August 2008A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 23rd August 2008What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 24th August 2008Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 25th August 2008A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 26th August 2008What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 27th August 2008Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 28th August 2008Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 29th August 2008What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 30th August 2008Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 31st August 2008Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.