Daily Practice · A Level
June 2010 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in June 2010, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in June 2010
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- 1st June 2010A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 2nd June 2010What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 3rd June 2010Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 4th June 2010Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 5th June 2010What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 6th June 2010Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 7th June 2010Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 8th June 2010What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 9th June 2010Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 10th June 2010Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 11th June 2010The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 12th June 2010Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 13th June 2010A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 14th June 2010A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 15th June 2010Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 16th June 2010Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 17th June 2010What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 18th June 2010The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 19th June 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.
- 20th June 2010Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 21st June 2010What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 22nd June 2010Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 23rd June 2010A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 24th June 2010In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 25th June 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).
- 26th June 2010Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 27th June 2010Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 28th June 2010A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 29th June 2010Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 30th June 2010The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.