Daily Practice · A Level
December 2024 - A Level 5-a-day
Every A Level sheet published in December 2024, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.
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Every sheet in December 2024
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2024What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 2nd December 2024Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 3rd December 2024Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 4th December 2024What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 5th December 2024Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 6th December 2024The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 7th December 2024Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 8th December 2024A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 9th December 2024What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 10th December 2024Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 11th December 2024Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 12th December 2024In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 13th December 2024The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 14th December 2024What is 'hubris'?
- 15th December 2024What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 16th December 2024What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 17th December 2024Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 18th December 2024A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 19th December 2024Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 20th December 2024What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 21st December 2024What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 22nd December 2024Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 23rd December 2024A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 24th December 2024Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 25th December 2024Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 26th December 2024Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 27th December 2024Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 28th December 2024What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 29th December 2024Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 30th December 2024Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 31st December 2024Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'