Daily Practice · A Level
December 2014 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in December 2014, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in December 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2014What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 2nd December 2014What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 3rd December 2014What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 4th December 2014Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 5th December 2014Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 6th December 2014Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 7th December 2014Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 8th December 2014Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 9th December 2014What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 10th December 2014Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 11th December 2014Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 12th December 2014Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 13th December 2014A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 14th December 2014What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 15th December 2014Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 16th December 2014Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 17th December 2014What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 18th December 2014Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 19th December 2014Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 20th December 2014What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 21st December 2014Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 22nd December 2014Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 23rd December 2014How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 24th December 2014Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 25th December 2014A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 26th December 2014A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 27th December 2014How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 28th December 2014Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 29th December 2014What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 30th December 2014The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 31st December 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.