Daily Practice · A Level
May 2009 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in May 2009, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in May 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2009Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 2nd May 2009What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 3rd May 2009Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 4th May 2009A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 5th May 2009True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 6th May 2009What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 7th May 2009Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 8th May 2009Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 9th May 2009What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 10th May 2009Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 11th May 2009Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 12th May 2009Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 13th May 2009A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 14th May 2009What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 15th May 2009Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 16th May 2009Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 17th May 2009In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 18th May 2009The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 19th May 2009What is 'hubris'?
- 20th May 2009What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 21st May 2009What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 22nd May 2009Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 23rd May 2009Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 24th May 2009Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 25th May 2009What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 26th May 2009What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 27th May 2009What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 28th May 2009Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 29th May 2009Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 30th May 2009Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 31st May 2009Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.