Daily Practice · A Level
August 2024 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in August 2024, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in August 2024
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- 1st August 2024Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 2nd August 2024Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 3rd August 2024Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 4th August 2024Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 5th August 2024Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 6th August 2024What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 7th August 2024Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 8th August 2024Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 9th August 2024Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 10th August 2024A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 11th August 2024What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 12th August 2024Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 13th August 2024Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 14th August 2024What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 15th August 2024Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 16th August 2024Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 17th August 2024What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 18th August 2024Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 19th August 2024Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 20th August 2024How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 21st August 2024Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 22nd August 2024A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 23rd August 2024A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 24th August 2024How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 25th August 2024Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 26th August 2024What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 27th August 2024The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 28th August 2024In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 29th August 2024Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 30th August 2024What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 31st August 2024Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.