Daily Practice · A Level
November 2016 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in November 2016, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in November 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2016What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 2nd November 2016Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 3rd November 2016Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 4th November 2016What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 5th November 2016Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 6th November 2016Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 7th November 2016Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 8th November 2016A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 9th November 2016What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 10th November 2016Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 11th November 2016Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 12th November 2016In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 13th November 2016The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 14th November 2016What is 'hubris'?
- 15th November 2016What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 16th November 2016What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 17th November 2016Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 18th November 2016The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 19th November 2016Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 20th November 2016What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 21st November 2016What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 22nd November 2016Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 23rd November 2016Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 24th November 2016Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 25th November 2016Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 26th November 2016Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 27th November 2016Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 28th November 2016What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 29th November 2016Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 30th November 2016A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?