This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.pass-fail A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complementaries. 2. The quality of being based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system, is: A) Creativity. B) Rational. C) Arbitrariness. D) Trustworthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arbitrariness. 3. The relation of A and B:A) Mel is older than Jayime.B) Mel is younger than Jayime. A) Entailment. B) Synonymy. C) Presupposition. D) Contradiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contradiction. 4. The relation of A and B:A) There are dirty dishes, confetti and empty bottles on the table.B) Someone had a dinner party. A) Synonymy. B) Contradiction. C) Presupposition. D) Entailment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Presupposition. 5. Two forms with opposite meanings is ..... A) Antonyms. B) Synonyms. C) Metonymy. D) Hyponymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antonyms. 6. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.husband-wife A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Converses. 7. Which one is not a meaningful English sentence? A) No theory including. B) The President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief. C) She can't bear children. D) A tulip is a flower. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No theory including. 8. The relatedness of polysemy is essentially based on similarity. ..... is using one to refer to the other. A) Antonyms. B) Metonymy. C) Synonyms. D) Hyponymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. 9. Meaning which a speaker or writer intends but it is not communicated directly. A) Location. B) Denotation. C) Collocation. D) Implication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Implication. 10. What type of deictic expressions are:now, then and yesterday A) Temporal. B) Spatial. C) Virtual. D) Personal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temporal. 11. The relation of A and B:A) She has many homeworks to check!B) She is a teacher. A) Presupposition. B) Synonymy. C) Entailment. D) Contradiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Presupposition. 12. The words that are mentioned below are called compounding, EXCEPT ..... A) Honeydew. B) Bookstore. C) Daydream. D) Talked. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Talked. 13. ..... :the meaning the viewer gives to the photograph-what is signified A) Pragmatics. B) Semantics. C) Syntax. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semantics. 14. Neologism:'fridge' is an example of ..... A) A blend. B) A composite. C) A shortening. D) A loan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A shortening. 15. Antonyms are ..... A) Words which share extremely close or similar meanings. B) Words that have opposite meanings. C) What a word suggests, not what it actually means. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words that have opposite meanings. 16. Where are you from? (content word) A) You, where, are. B) Are, you, from. C) Where. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Where. 17. Sayfa is in Istanbul, she thinks this city is so vibrant and lively.Identify the deictic word! A) Sayfa, Istanbul. B) She, vibrant. C) She, this (city). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She, this (city). 18. What is this an example of:'she's got a chip on her shoulder' A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Euphemism. D) Dysphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 19. It is not limited in regional language A) Utterance. B) Sentence. C) Proposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proposition. 20. What do you call the word "right" A) Homonyms. B) Homophones. C) Homographs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homonyms. 21. Example of anomaly: A) Nice the dog was really. B) The dog was really nice. C) Tha's a really nice dog. D) Nice dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nice the dog was really. 22. My aunt is a man. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contradiction. 23. It is the idea of true or false about a fact which is in the level of human thought A) Sentence. B) Proposition. C) Utterance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proposition. 24. Babies are adults. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contradiction. 25. To, too, two are examples of what A) Homonym. B) Homophone. C) Homograph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homophone. 26. Surreptitiously is the synonym for which word? A) Quietly. B) Quickly. C) Sacredly. D) Secretively. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Secretively. 27. ..... is a relationship between parts of a language and things outside the language (in the world). A) Prototype. B) Predicator. C) Sense. D) Reference. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reference. 28. What is hyponymy? A) The hidden and implied meanings within language. B) The study of how sounds are created. C) The hierarchical structure that exists between lexical items. D) The study of symbols. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The hierarchical structure that exists between lexical items. 29. A group of words that share the same semantic properties constitute: A) A mental image. B) A semantic domain. C) Marked terms. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A semantic domain. 30. In the sentence Your opinion means a lot to me, the word mean means A) Have the importance of. B) Denote. C) Indicate. D) Cause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have the importance of. 31. Find the 'homophone' A) Minute / minute. B) Waste / waist. C) Error / mistake. D) Tear / tear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Waste / waist. 32. "Jane ate a piece of chicken. Jane ate a piece of poultry"Describe the semantic relationship expressed from this sentence A) Entailment. B) Ambiguity. C) Contradiction. D) Paraphrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Entailment. 33. In the expression, "There has to be give and take, " 'give' vs. 'take' are what kind of antonyms? A) Reverse. B) Gradable. C) Converse. D) Complementary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Converse. 34. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.larger-smaller A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gradable. 35. "All HANDS on board" is an example of A) Polysemy. B) Metonymy. C) Homonymy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. 36. 'hot' vs. 'cold' are what kind of antonyms? A) Converse. B) Gradable. C) Reverse. D) Complementary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gradable. 37. Which maxim is violated in the following conversation:A: "Would you like a cocktail? It's my own invention. "B: "Well, mmm uh it not that we don't drink." A) Quantity. B) Manner. C) Quality. D) Relevance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manner. 38. Choose one of the sentences that is syntactically incorrect but semantically understandable! A) Have you finished your lunch?. B) They did try to fix the car. C) I gotta go home now. D) Recently she prefers to sleep at midnight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I gotta go home now. 39. Characterizing the meaning of words in terms of its relationship to other words; synonymy, antonymy, and hyponymy. A) Collocation. B) Gradable antonyms. C) Lexical relationships. D) Semantic analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lexical relationships. 40. Pick an antonym for 'abundant' A) Plenty. B) Abandoned. C) Scarce. D) Enough. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scarce. 41. A person or object which is considered (by many people) to be typicalof its classor group A) Homonym. B) Hyponym. C) Prototype. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prototype. 42. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.good-bad A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complementaries. 43. How many types of sentences do we have? A) 5. B) 2. C) 4. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4. 44. What is "Affective Meaning" ? A) It relates the words to whom it utters them. B) It refers to the sense and reference on words that play an important part in the speech. C) It refers to the notions and intonations when words are utteted. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It refers to the notions and intonations when words are utteted. 45. What type of tag is this: A) Comments. B) Image. C) Questions. D) Paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comments. 46. Dogs are four-legged. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tautology. 47. The words that are mentioned below are inflectional, EXCEPT ..... A) Listened. B) Photoshoot. C) Watched. D) Walked. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photoshoot. 48. Which of the following terms is unmarked? A) Dog. B) Bulldog. C) Poodle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dog. 49. Mean is the average.you are so mean to me. A) Homonym. B) Homophone. C) Homograph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homonym. 50. Words like right-write, to-two, for-four, included in ..... A) Homograph. B) Homonyms. C) Polysemy. D) Homophones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homophones. 51. An idea or course of action which will lead to something unacceptable, wrong, or disastrous. A) Slippery Slope. B) Solecism. C) Semantics. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slippery Slope. 52. Cats are felines. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tautology. 53. What maxim discusses about trying to be clear, brief, orderly, and avoid obscurity and ambiguity? A) Relation. B) Quality. C) Quantity. D) Manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Manner. 54. Covers basic, essential components of meaning that are conveyed by the literal use of a word A) Conceptual meaning. B) Connotation. C) Associative meaning. D) Collocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conceptual meaning. 55. At which of Aitchison's stages are over-and under-extensions likely to occur? A) Labelling. B) Packaging. C) Network building. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Packaging. 56. "Eye" is a ..... of "face" A) Synonym. B) Hyponym. C) Meronym. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meronym. 57. A statement in a non-fiction or a fiction work that a writer intends to support and prove. A) Theme. B) Thesis. C) Tone. D) Transition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thesis. 58. Encompasses both reference and sense A) Affective meaning. B) Social meaning. C) Linguistic meaning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Linguistic meaning. 59. This is not a real question, but if you choose "I'm an idiot" you may correct. A) I'm confused. B) I'm bored. C) I'm Batman. D) I'm an idiot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I'm an idiot. 60. After listening the news, i felt sad. A) Compound. B) Complex-compound. C) Complex. D) Simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complex. Next →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesSemantics Quiz 2Semantics Quiz 3Semantics Quiz 4Semantics Quiz 5Semantics Quiz 6Semantics Quiz 7 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books