Daily Practice · A Level
May 2013 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in May 2013, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in May 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2013Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 2nd May 2013Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 3rd May 2013Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 4th May 2013What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 5th May 2013What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 6th May 2013Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 7th May 2013Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 8th May 2013Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 9th May 2013Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 10th May 2013Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 11th May 2013Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 12th May 2013What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 13th May 2013Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 14th May 2013How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 15th May 2013Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 16th May 2013A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 17th May 2013What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 18th May 2013How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 19th May 2013Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 20th May 2013What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 21st May 2013Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 22nd May 2013Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 23rd May 2013What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 24th May 2013Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 25th May 2013Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 26th May 2013Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 27th May 2013Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 28th May 2013A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 29th May 2013A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 30th May 2013Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 31st May 2013Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'