Daily Practice · A Level
September 2008 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in September 2008, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in September 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2008Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 2nd September 2008Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 3rd September 2008A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 4th September 2008A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 5th September 2008Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 6th September 2008Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 7th September 2008What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 8th September 2008The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 9th September 2008In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 10th September 2008Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 11th September 2008What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 12th September 2008Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 13th September 2008Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 14th September 2008In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 15th September 2008Calculate 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).
- 16th September 2008Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 17th September 2008What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 18th September 2008Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 19th September 2008Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 20th September 2008The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 21st September 2008A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 22nd September 2008Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 23rd September 2008Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 24th September 2008Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 25th September 2008Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 26th September 2008What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 27th September 2008Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 28th September 2008What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 29th September 2008Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 30th September 2008Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.