Daily Practice · A Level
August 2017 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in August 2017, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in August 2017
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- 1st August 2017Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 2nd August 2017Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 3rd August 2017Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 4th August 2017The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 5th August 2017A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 6th August 2017Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 7th August 2017Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 8th August 2017Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 9th August 2017A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 10th August 2017What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 11th August 2017Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 12th August 2017What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 13th August 2017Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 14th August 2017A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 15th August 2017True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 16th August 2017What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 17th August 2017Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 18th August 2017Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 19th August 2017What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 20th August 2017Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 21st August 2017Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 22nd August 2017Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 23rd August 2017A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 24th August 2017What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 25th August 2017Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 26th August 2017Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 27th August 2017In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 28th August 2017The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 29th August 2017What is 'hubris'?
- 30th August 2017What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 31st August 2017What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?