Daily Practice · A Level
March 2009 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in March 2009, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in March 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2009Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 2nd March 2009A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 3rd March 2009What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 4th March 2009What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 5th March 2009Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 6th March 2009In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 7th March 2009The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 8th March 2009What is 'hubris'?
- 9th March 2009What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 10th March 2009What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 11th March 2009Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 12th March 2009Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 13th March 2009Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 14th March 2009What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 15th March 2009What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 16th March 2009Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 17th March 2009Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 18th March 2009Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 19th March 2009Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 20th March 2009Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 21st March 2009Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 22nd March 2009What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 23rd March 2009Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 24th March 2009How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 25th March 2009Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 26th March 2009A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 27th March 2009What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 28th March 2009How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 29th March 2009Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 30th March 2009What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 31st March 2009Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.