Daily Practice · A Level

February 2026 - A Level 5-a-day

Every A Level sheet published in February 2026, with answers. A Level - discourse, register, framework analysis and language change.

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February 2026

28 sheets · 140 questions · A Level

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  1. 1st February 2026Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
  2. 2nd February 2026What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
  3. 3rd February 2026Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
  4. 4th February 2026Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
  5. 5th February 2026True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
  6. 6th February 2026What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
  7. 7th February 2026Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
  8. 8th February 2026Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
  9. 9th February 2026What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
  10. 10th February 2026Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
  11. 11th February 2026A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
  12. 12th February 2026Define 'extended metaphor'.
  13. 13th February 2026A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
  14. 14th February 2026What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
  15. 15th February 2026Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
  16. 16th February 2026A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
  17. 17th February 2026In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
  18. 18th February 2026The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
  19. 19th February 2026What is 'hubris'?
  20. 20th February 2026What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
  21. 21st February 2026What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
  22. 22nd February 2026Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
  23. 23rd February 2026Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
  24. 24th February 2026Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
  25. 25th February 2026What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
  26. 26th February 2026What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
  27. 27th February 2026Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
  28. 28th February 2026Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.

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