Daily Practice · A Level
June 2017 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in June 2017, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in June 2017
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- 1st June 2017What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 2nd June 2017Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 3rd June 2017Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 4th June 2017True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 5th June 2017What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 6th June 2017Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 7th June 2017Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 8th June 2017What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 9th June 2017Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 10th June 2017Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 11th June 2017Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 12th June 2017A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 13th June 2017What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 14th June 2017What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 15th June 2017Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 16th June 2017In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 17th June 2017The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 18th June 2017What is 'hubris'?
- 19th June 2017What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 20th June 2017What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 21st June 2017Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 22nd June 2017Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 23rd June 2017Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 24th June 2017What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 25th June 2017What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 26th June 2017Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 27th June 2017Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 28th June 2017Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 29th June 2017Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 30th June 2017Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.