Daily Practice · A Level

October 2015 - A Level 5-a-day

Every A Level sheet published in October 2015, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.

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October 2015

31 sheets · 155 questions · A Level

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  1. 1st October 2015What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
  2. 2nd October 2015Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
  3. 3rd October 2015Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
  4. 4th October 2015What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
  5. 5th October 2015Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
  6. 6th October 2015Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
  7. 7th October 2015A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
  8. 8th October 2015Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
  9. 9th October 2015A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
  10. 10th October 2015A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
  11. 11th October 2015Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
  12. 12th October 2015A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
  13. 13th October 2015What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
  14. 14th October 2015The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
  15. 15th October 2015In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
  16. 16th October 2015Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
  17. 17th October 2015What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
  18. 18th October 2015Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
  19. 19th October 2015Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
  20. 20th October 2015In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
  21. 21st October 2015Calculate 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).
  22. 22nd October 2015Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
  23. 23rd October 2015Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
  24. 24th October 2015Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
  25. 25th October 2015Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
  26. 26th October 2015The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
  27. 27th October 2015A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
  28. 28th October 2015Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
  29. 29th October 2015Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
  30. 30th October 2015Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
  31. 31st October 2015Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.

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