Daily Practice · A Level
May 2010 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in May 2010, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in May 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2010What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 2nd May 2010Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 3rd May 2010Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 4th May 2010What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 5th May 2010Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 6th May 2010Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 7th May 2010Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 8th May 2010A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 9th May 2010What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 10th May 2010Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 11th May 2010Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 12th May 2010In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 13th May 2010The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 14th May 2010What is 'hubris'?
- 15th May 2010What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 16th May 2010What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 17th May 2010Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 18th May 2010How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 19th May 2010Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 20th May 2010What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 21st May 2010What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 22nd May 2010How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 23rd May 2010Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 24th May 2010Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 25th May 2010Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 26th May 2010Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 27th May 2010Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 28th May 2010What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 29th May 2010Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 30th May 2010Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 31st May 2010Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'