Daily Practice · A Level
September 2010 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in September 2010, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in September 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2010What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 2nd September 2010Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 3rd September 2010The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 4th September 2010In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 5th September 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).
- 6th September 2010Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 7th September 2010Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 8th September 2010Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 9th September 2010Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 10th September 2010The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 11th September 2010A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 12th September 2010Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 13th September 2010Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 14th September 2010Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 15th September 2010A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 16th September 2010What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 17th September 2010Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 18th September 2010What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 19th September 2010Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 20th September 2010A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 21st September 2010True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 22nd September 2010What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 23rd September 2010Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 24th September 2010Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 25th September 2010What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 26th September 2010Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 27th September 2010Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 28th September 2010Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 29th September 2010A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 30th September 2010What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?