Daily Practice · A Level
May 2014 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in May 2014, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in May 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2014Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 2nd May 2014Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 3rd May 2014Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 4th May 2014Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 5th May 2014Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 6th May 2014Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 7th May 2014What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 8th May 2014Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 9th May 2014The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 10th May 2014Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 11th May 2014A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 12th May 2014What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 13th May 2014Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 14th May 2014Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 15th May 2014What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 16th May 2014Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 17th May 2014Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 18th May 2014What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 19th May 2014Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 20th May 2014Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 21st May 2014A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 22nd May 2014Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 23rd May 2014A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 24th May 2014A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 25th May 2014Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 26th May 2014A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 27th May 2014What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 28th May 2014The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 29th May 2014In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 30th May 2014Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 31st May 2014What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?