Daily Practice · A Level
March 2011 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in March 2011, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in March 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2011Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 2nd March 2011A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 3rd March 2011Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 4th March 2011What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 5th March 2011What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 6th March 2011Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 7th March 2011A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 8th March 2011Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 9th March 2011Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 10th March 2011Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 11th March 2011Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 12th March 2011What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 13th March 2011Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 14th March 2011Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 15th March 2011Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 16th March 2011A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 17th March 2011What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 18th March 2011Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 19th March 2011Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 20th March 2011What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 21st March 2011Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 22nd March 2011Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 23rd March 2011What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 24th March 2011Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 25th March 2011Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 26th March 2011Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 27th March 2011Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 28th March 2011A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 29th March 2011A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 30th March 2011What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 31st March 2011Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?