Daily Practice · A Level
July 2012 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in July 2012, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in July 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2012What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 2nd July 2012Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 3rd July 2012Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 4th July 2012What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 5th July 2012Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 6th July 2012The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 7th July 2012Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 8th July 2012A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 9th July 2012What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 10th July 2012Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 11th July 2012Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 12th July 2012In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 13th July 2012The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 14th July 2012What is 'hubris'?
- 15th July 2012What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 16th July 2012What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 17th July 2012Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 18th July 2012A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 19th July 2012Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 20th July 2012What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 21st July 2012What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 22nd July 2012Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 23rd July 2012A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 24th July 2012Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 25th July 2012Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 26th July 2012Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 27th July 2012Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 28th July 2012What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 29th July 2012Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 30th July 2012Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 31st July 2012Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'