Daily Practice · A Level
February 2021 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in February 2021, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in February 2021
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- 1st February 2021Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 2nd February 2021Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 3rd February 2021A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 4th February 2021A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 5th February 2021Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 6th February 2021Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 7th February 2021What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 8th February 2021The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 9th February 2021In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 10th February 2021Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 11th February 2021What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 12th February 2021Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 13th February 2021Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 14th February 2021In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 15th February 2021Calculate 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).
- 16th February 2021Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 17th February 2021What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 18th February 2021Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 19th February 2021Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 20th February 2021The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 21st February 2021A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 22nd February 2021Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 23rd February 2021Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 24th February 2021Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 25th February 2021Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 26th February 2021What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 27th February 2021Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 28th February 2021What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?