Daily Practice · A Level
June 2016 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in June 2016, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in June 2016
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- 1st June 2016Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 2nd June 2016Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 3rd June 2016The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 4th June 2016What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 5th June 2016Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 6th June 2016What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 7th June 2016Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 8th June 2016Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 9th June 2016True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 10th June 2016What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 11th June 2016Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 12th June 2016Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 13th June 2016What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 14th June 2016Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 15th June 2016A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 16th June 2016Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 17th June 2016A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 18th June 2016What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 19th June 2016Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 20th June 2016A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 21st June 2016In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 22nd June 2016The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 23rd June 2016What is 'hubris'?
- 24th June 2016What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 25th June 2016What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 26th June 2016Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 27th June 2016Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 28th June 2016Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 29th June 2016What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 30th June 2016What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?