Daily Practice · A Level
August 2014 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in August 2014, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in August 2014
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- 1st August 2014The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 2nd August 2014Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 3rd August 2014A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 4th August 2014A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 5th August 2014Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 6th August 2014Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 7th August 2014What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 8th August 2014The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 9th August 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.
- 10th August 2014Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 11th August 2014What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 12th August 2014Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 13th August 2014A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 14th August 2014In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 15th August 2014Calculate the MLU in morphemes for these three utterances: 'I want juice' (3 morphemes), 'the dog barked' (4 morphemes, counting -ed as one), 'mummy gone now' (3 morphemes).
- 16th August 2014Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 17th August 2014Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 18th August 2014A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 19th August 2014Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 20th August 2014The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 21st August 2014A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 22nd August 2014Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 23rd August 2014Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 24th August 2014Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 25th August 2014Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 26th August 2014What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 27th August 2014Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 28th August 2014What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 29th August 2014Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 30th August 2014Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 31st August 2014True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.