Daily Practice · A Level
February 2009 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in February 2009, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in February 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2009Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 2nd February 2009What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 3rd February 2009Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 4th February 2009A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 5th February 2009In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 6th February 2009Calculate 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).
- 7th February 2009Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 8th February 2009Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 9th February 2009A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 10th February 2009Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 11th February 2009The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 12th February 2009A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 13th February 2009Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 14th February 2009Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 15th February 2009Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 16th February 2009Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 17th February 2009What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 18th February 2009Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 19th February 2009What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 20th February 2009Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 21st February 2009Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 22nd February 2009True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 23rd February 2009What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 24th February 2009Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 25th February 2009Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 26th February 2009What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 27th February 2009Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 28th February 2009Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.