Daily Practice · A Level
November 2011 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in November 2011, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in November 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2011Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 2nd November 2011Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 3rd November 2011What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 4th November 2011The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 5th November 2011In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 6th November 2011Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 7th November 2011What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 8th November 2011Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 9th November 2011A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 10th November 2011In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 11th November 2011Calculate 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).
- 12th November 2011Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 13th November 2011Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 14th November 2011A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 15th November 2011Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 16th November 2011The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 17th November 2011A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 18th November 2011Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 19th November 2011Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 20th November 2011Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 21st November 2011Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 22nd November 2011What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 23rd November 2011Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 24th November 2011What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 25th November 2011Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 26th November 2011Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 27th November 2011True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 28th November 2011What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 29th November 2011Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 30th November 2011Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.