Daily Practice · A Level
April 2010 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in April 2010, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in April 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2010Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 2nd April 2010A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 3rd April 2010A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 4th April 2010Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 5th April 2010A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 6th April 2010What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 7th April 2010The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 8th April 2010In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 9th April 2010Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 10th April 2010What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 11th April 2010Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 12th April 2010Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 13th April 2010In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 14th April 2010Calculate 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).
- 15th April 2010Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 16th April 2010Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 17th April 2010Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 18th April 2010Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 19th April 2010The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 20th April 2010A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 21st April 2010Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 22nd April 2010Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 23rd April 2010Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 24th April 2010Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 25th April 2010What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 26th April 2010Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 27th April 2010What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 28th April 2010What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 29th April 2010Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 30th April 2010True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.