Daily Practice · A Level
August 2012 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in August 2012, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in August 2012
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- 1st August 2012A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 2nd August 2012What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 3rd August 2012Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 4th August 2012Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 5th August 2012What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 6th August 2012Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 7th August 2012Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 8th August 2012What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 9th August 2012Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 10th August 2012Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 11th August 2012Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 12th August 2012Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 13th August 2012A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 14th August 2012A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 15th August 2012What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 16th August 2012Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 17th August 2012What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 18th August 2012The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 19th August 2012In 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 August 2012Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 21st August 2012What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 22nd August 2012Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 23rd August 2012Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 24th August 2012In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 25th August 2012Calculate 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 August 2012Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 27th August 2012Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 28th August 2012Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 29th August 2012Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 30th August 2012The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 31st August 2012A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.