Daily Practice · A Level
January 2019 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in January 2019, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in January 2019
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2019True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 2nd January 2019What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 3rd January 2019Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 4th January 2019Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 5th January 2019What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 6th January 2019Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 7th January 2019Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 8th January 2019Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 9th January 2019A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 10th January 2019What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 11th January 2019Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 12th January 2019Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 13th January 2019In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 14th January 2019The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 15th January 2019What is 'hubris'?
- 16th January 2019What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 17th January 2019What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 18th January 2019Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 19th January 2019Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 20th January 2019Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 21st January 2019What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 22nd January 2019What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 23rd January 2019What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 24th January 2019Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 25th January 2019Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 26th January 2019Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 27th January 2019Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 28th January 2019Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 29th January 2019What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 30th January 2019Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 31st January 2019Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.