Daily Practice · A Level
March 2018 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in March 2018, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in March 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2018Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 2nd March 2018In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 3rd March 2018Calculate 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).
- 4th March 2018Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 5th March 2018Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 6th March 2018Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 7th March 2018Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 8th March 2018The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 9th March 2018A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 10th March 2018Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 11th March 2018Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 12th March 2018Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 13th March 2018How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 14th March 2018What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 15th March 2018Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 16th March 2018What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 17th March 2018How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 18th March 2018Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 19th March 2018True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 20th March 2018What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 21st March 2018Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 22nd March 2018Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 23rd March 2018What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 24th March 2018Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 25th March 2018Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 26th March 2018Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 27th March 2018A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 28th March 2018What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 29th March 2018Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 30th March 2018Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 31st March 2018In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?