Daily Practice · A Level
January 2018 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in January 2018, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in January 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2018What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 2nd January 2018Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 3rd January 2018What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 4th January 2018Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 5th January 2018Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 6th January 2018True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 7th January 2018What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 8th January 2018Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 9th January 2018Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 10th January 2018What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 11th January 2018Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 12th January 2018The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 13th January 2018Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 14th January 2018A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 15th January 2018What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 16th January 2018Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 17th January 2018Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 18th January 2018In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 19th January 2018The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 20th January 2018What is 'hubris'?
- 21st January 2018What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 22nd January 2018What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 23rd January 2018Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 24th January 2018A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 25th January 2018Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 26th January 2018What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 27th January 2018What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 28th January 2018Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 29th January 2018A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 30th January 2018Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 31st January 2018Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.