Daily Practice · A Level
February 2014 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in February 2014, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in February 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2014Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 2nd February 2014Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 3rd February 2014Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 4th February 2014A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 5th February 2014What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 6th February 2014Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 7th February 2014Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 8th February 2014In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 9th February 2014The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 10th February 2014What is 'hubris'?
- 11th February 2014What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 12th February 2014What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 13th February 2014Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 14th February 2014The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 15th February 2014Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 16th February 2014What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 17th February 2014What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 18th February 2014Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 19th February 2014Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 20th February 2014Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 21st February 2014Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 22nd February 2014Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 23rd February 2014Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 24th February 2014What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 25th February 2014Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 26th February 2014A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 27th February 2014Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 28th February 2014A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?