Daily Practice · A Level

January 2022 - A Level 5-a-day

Every A Level sheet published in January 2022, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.

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January 2022

31 sheets · 155 questions · A Level

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  1. 1st January 2022What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
  2. 2nd January 2022Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
  3. 3rd January 2022Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
  4. 4th January 2022Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
  5. 5th January 2022What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
  6. 6th January 2022What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
  7. 7th January 2022Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
  8. 8th January 2022Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
  9. 9th January 2022Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
  10. 10th January 2022Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
  11. 11th January 2022Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
  12. 12th January 2022Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
  13. 13th January 2022What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
  14. 14th January 2022Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
  15. 15th January 2022Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
  16. 16th January 2022Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
  17. 17th January 2022A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
  18. 18th January 2022What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
  19. 19th January 2022What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
  20. 20th January 2022Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
  21. 21st January 2022What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
  22. 22nd January 2022Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
  23. 23rd January 2022Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
  24. 24th January 2022What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
  25. 25th January 2022Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
  26. 26th January 2022Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
  27. 27th January 2022Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
  28. 28th January 2022Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
  29. 29th January 2022A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
  30. 30th January 2022A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
  31. 31st January 2022Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.

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