Daily Practice · A Level
November 2017 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in November 2017, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in November 2017
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- 1st November 2017A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 2nd November 2017Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 3rd November 2017A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 4th November 2017What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 5th November 2017Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 6th November 2017A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 7th November 2017In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 8th November 2017The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 9th November 2017What is 'hubris'?
- 10th November 2017What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 11th November 2017What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 12th November 2017Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 13th November 2017Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 14th November 2017Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 15th November 2017What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 16th November 2017What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 17th November 2017Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 18th November 2017Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 19th November 2017Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 20th November 2017Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 21st November 2017Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 22nd November 2017Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 23rd November 2017What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 24th November 2017Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 25th November 2017Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 26th November 2017Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 27th November 2017A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 28th November 2017What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 29th November 2017What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 30th November 2017Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?