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November 2022 - A Level 5-a-day

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

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November 2022

30 sheets · 150 questions · A Level

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  1. 1st November 2022A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
  2. 2nd November 2022What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
  3. 3rd November 2022Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
  4. 4th November 2022Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
  5. 5th November 2022What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
  6. 6th November 2022Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
  7. 7th November 2022Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
  8. 8th November 2022What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
  9. 9th November 2022Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
  10. 10th November 2022Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
  11. 11th November 2022The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
  12. 12th November 2022Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
  13. 13th November 2022A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
  14. 14th November 2022A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
  15. 15th November 2022Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
  16. 16th November 2022Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
  17. 17th November 2022What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
  18. 18th November 2022The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
  19. 19th November 2022In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
  20. 20th November 2022Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
  21. 21st November 2022What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
  22. 22nd November 2022Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
  23. 23rd November 2022A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
  24. 24th November 2022In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
  25. 25th November 2022Calculate 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).
  26. 26th November 2022Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
  27. 27th November 2022Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
  28. 28th November 2022A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
  29. 29th November 2022Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
  30. 30th November 2022The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.

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