Daily Practice · A Level
December 2008 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in December 2008, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in December 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2008The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 2nd December 2008A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 3rd December 2008Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 4th December 2008Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 5th December 2008Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 6th December 2008Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 7th December 2008What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 8th December 2008Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 9th December 2008What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 10th December 2008What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 11th December 2008Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 12th December 2008True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 13th December 2008What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 14th December 2008Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 15th December 2008Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 16th December 2008What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 17th December 2008Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 18th December 2008Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 19th December 2008Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 20th December 2008A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 21st December 2008What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 22nd December 2008Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 23rd December 2008Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 24th December 2008In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 25th December 2008The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 26th December 2008What is 'hubris'?
- 27th December 2008What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 28th December 2008What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 29th December 2008Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 30th December 2008How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 31st December 2008Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.