Daily Practice · A Level
November 2013 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in November 2013, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in November 2013
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- 1st November 2013Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 2nd November 2013How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 3rd November 2013Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 4th November 2013Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 5th November 2013The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 6th November 2013A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 7th November 2013Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 8th November 2013Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 9th November 2013Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 10th November 2013Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 11th November 2013What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 12th November 2013Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 13th November 2013What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 14th November 2013Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 15th November 2013Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 16th November 2013True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 17th November 2013What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 18th November 2013Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 19th November 2013Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 20th November 2013What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 21st November 2013Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 22nd November 2013The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 23rd November 2013Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 24th November 2013A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 25th November 2013What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 26th November 2013Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 27th November 2013Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 28th November 2013In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 29th November 2013The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 30th November 2013What is 'hubris'?