Daily Practice · A Level
May 2020 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in May 2020, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in May 2020
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- 1st May 2020The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 2nd May 2020In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 3rd May 2020Calculate 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 May 2020Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 5th May 2020Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 6th May 2020Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 7th May 2020Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 8th May 2020The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 9th May 2020A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 10th May 2020Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 11th May 2020Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 12th May 2020Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 13th May 2020A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 14th May 2020What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 15th May 2020Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 16th May 2020What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 17th May 2020Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 18th May 2020A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 19th May 2020True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 20th May 2020What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 21st May 2020Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 22nd May 2020Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 23rd May 2020What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 24th May 2020Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 25th May 2020Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 26th May 2020Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 27th May 2020A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 28th May 2020What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 29th May 2020Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 30th May 2020Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 31st May 2020In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?