Daily Practice · A Level
December 2016 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in December 2016, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in December 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2016Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 2nd December 2016A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 3rd December 2016What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 4th December 2016Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 5th December 2016A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 6th December 2016What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 7th December 2016Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 8th December 2016Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 9th December 2016What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 10th December 2016Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 11th December 2016Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 12th December 2016Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 13th December 2016Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 14th December 2016A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 15th December 2016A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 16th December 2016Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 17th December 2016Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 18th December 2016What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 19th December 2016The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 20th December 2016In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 21st December 2016Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 22nd December 2016What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 23rd December 2016Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 24th December 2016Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 25th December 2016In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 26th December 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).
- 27th December 2016Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 28th December 2016What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 29th December 2016Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 30th December 2016Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 31st December 2016The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.