Daily Practice · A Level
January 2016 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in January 2016, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in January 2016
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- 1st January 2016Calculate 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).
- 2nd January 2016Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 3rd January 2016Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 4th January 2016A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 5th January 2016Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 6th January 2016The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 7th January 2016A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 8th January 2016Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 9th January 2016Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 10th January 2016Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 11th January 2016Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 12th January 2016What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 13th January 2016Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 14th January 2016What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 15th January 2016Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 16th January 2016Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 17th January 2016True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 18th January 2016What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 19th January 2016Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 20th January 2016Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 21st January 2016What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 22nd January 2016Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 23rd January 2016Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 24th January 2016Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 25th January 2016A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 26th January 2016What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 27th January 2016What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 28th January 2016Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 29th January 2016In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 30th January 2016The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 31st January 2016What is 'hubris'?