Daily Practice · A Level
April 2015 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in April 2015, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in April 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2015What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 2nd April 2015Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 3rd April 2015Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 4th April 2015True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 5th April 2015What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 6th April 2015Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 7th April 2015Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 8th April 2015What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 9th April 2015Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 10th April 2015The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 11th April 2015Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 12th April 2015A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 13th April 2015What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 14th April 2015Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 15th April 2015Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 16th April 2015In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 17th April 2015The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 18th April 2015What is 'hubris'?
- 19th April 2015What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 20th April 2015What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 21st April 2015Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 22nd April 2015A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 23rd April 2015Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 24th April 2015What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 25th April 2015What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 26th April 2015Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 27th April 2015A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 28th April 2015Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 29th April 2015Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 30th April 2015Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.