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