Daily Practice · A Level
February 2016 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in February 2016, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in February 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2016What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 2nd February 2016What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 3rd February 2016Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 4th February 2016Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 5th February 2016Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 6th February 2016What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 7th February 2016What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 8th February 2016Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 9th February 2016Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 10th February 2016Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 11th February 2016Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 12th February 2016Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 13th February 2016Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 14th February 2016What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 15th February 2016Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 16th February 2016How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 17th February 2016Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 18th February 2016A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 19th February 2016What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 20th February 2016How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 21st February 2016Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 22nd February 2016What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 23rd February 2016Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 24th February 2016Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 25th February 2016What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 26th February 2016Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 27th February 2016Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 28th February 2016Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 29th February 2016Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.