Daily Practice · A Level
September 2012 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in September 2012, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in September 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2012Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 2nd September 2012Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 3rd September 2012Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 4th September 2012How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 5th September 2012What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 6th September 2012Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 7th September 2012What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 8th September 2012How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 9th September 2012Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 10th September 2012True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 11th September 2012What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 12th September 2012Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 13th September 2012Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 14th September 2012What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 15th September 2012Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 16th September 2012Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 17th September 2012Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 18th September 2012A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 19th September 2012What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 20th September 2012Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 21st September 2012Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 22nd September 2012In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 23rd September 2012The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 24th September 2012What is 'hubris'?
- 25th September 2012What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 26th September 2012What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 27th September 2012Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 28th September 2012The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 29th September 2012Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 30th September 2012What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?