This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When two or more different (written) forms have the same pronunciation, they are called ..... (bear/bare, meat/meet, right/write) A) Co-hyponyms. B) Homophones. C) Hyponym. D) Homonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homophones. 2. The use of objects or ideas to signify other ideas and qualities by giving them meanings that are different from their literal sense. A) Syntax. B) Syllogism. C) Symbol/Symbolism. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol/Symbolism. 3. Neologism:'cuisine' is an example of ..... A) A loan. B) A blend. C) A shift. D) A composite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A loan. 4. A written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject. A) Understatement. B) Wit. C) Undertone. D) Treatise. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Treatise. 5. Flower-rose-red rose Flower is . . . A) Homonymy. B) Hypernym. C) Co-hyponym. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypernym. 6. Sentence meaning is in the area of ..... A) Pragmatics. B) Semantics. C) Morphology. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semantics. 7. Words and phrases that provide a connection between ideas, sentences and paragraphs. A) Transition. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transition. 8. Read the situations below. Select what implies to metaphor . A) This is a number. B) We are older than you. C) Age is just a number. D) He is very young. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Age is just a number. 9. The word waitress is ..... and the word waiter is ..... A) Altered /marked. B) Marked / unmarked. C) Unmarked / marked. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marked / unmarked. 10. What does the manner of the text refer to? A) The formality of the text. B) The vocabulary of the text. C) Whether the text is spoken or written. D) Where the text is published. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The formality of the text. 11. If you say table, most people will say chair. This is the example of? A) Collocation. B) Word play. C) Antonymy. D) Polysemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collocation. 12. In English, the expression that generally occurs immediately to the left of the verb is the ..... A) Complement. B) Object. C) Subject. D) Adjunct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subject. 13. If the rain comes, they run and hide their heads. A) Sentence. B) Utterance. C) Utterance and sentence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sentence. 14. The words here are homophones, EXCEPT ..... A) Poor-pour. B) Axe-ask. C) Hi-high. D) Meat-meet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axe-ask. 15. An assumption made by the speaker or the writer. A) Reference. B) Speech act. C) Presuposition. D) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Presuposition. 16. What maxim discusses about trying to be relevant and says things that are pertinent to the discussion? A) Quality. B) Relation. C) Quantity. D) Manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relation. 17. Meanings that differ based on the word order is the definition of ..... A) Semantics and syntax. B) Semantics and morphology. C) Semantics and pragmatics. D) Semantics and phonology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Semantics and syntax. 18. As the maxims stand, what happen if the length of one says is long-winded? A) There may be a reconcilation. B) There may be explained. C) There may be an overlap. D) There may be broken. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There may be an overlap. 19. What is the word 'wave' related to? A) Homophones. B) Homonyms. C) Homographs. D) Hyponyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homonyms. 20. Which sentence is semantically wrong? A) The camel sniffed the chocolate and then ate it. B) The platypus alive for an hour after the hunter killed it. C) John arrived yesterday. D) My sister is a bachelor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The platypus alive for an hour after the hunter killed it. 21. The study of which words occur together, and their frequency of co-occurrence. A) Location. B) Implication. C) Connotation. D) Collocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Collocation. 22. A generic sentence is a sentence in which some statement is made about ....., as opposed to any particular individual A) A whole unrestricted class of individuals. B) Individuals in general. C) A group of objects. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A whole unrestricted class of individuals. 23. Choose that are antonyms word A) Awake-Asleep. B) Ask-Enquire. C) Coarse-Rough. D) Rest-Relax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Awake-Asleep. 24. Hyponymy and hyperonymy are also called ..... A) Complementaries. B) Subordinates and superordinates. C) Partonymy and troponymy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subordinates and superordinates. 25. This is an example of paraphrase for:I had lunch before going to the park. A) First I went to the park and then I ate something. B) After I had lunch, I went to the park. C) You shouldn't go to the park after lunch. D) Are you hungry?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After I had lunch, I went to the park. 26. What does HTML stand for? A) Hypertext Making Language. B) Hyper Transfer Markup Language. C) Hypertext Markup Language. D) Hyper Transfer Making Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypertext Markup Language. 27. Which one is NOT a strategy for building syntax skill that mentioned in this lesson? A) Sentence combining. B) SentenceElaboration. C) Sentence scramble. D) Sentence building. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sentence building. 28. Read the situation below. Select an example of figurative speech. A) Time flies. B) He swims. C) Fish swim. D) Birds fly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time flies. 29. A referring expression is any expression used in an utterance to ..... to something or someone, that is used with a particular referent in mind A) Mean. B) Describe. C) Connect. D) Refer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refer. 30. The relation of A and B:A) You should see an eye specialist.B) You should consult an oculist. A) Presupposition. B) Contradiction. C) Synonymy. D) Entailment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synonymy. 31. Which linguist is associated to the sentence 'Colorless green ideas sleep furiously'? A) Ferdinand de Saussure. B) Noam Chomsky. C) Charles Kreidler. D) John Saeed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noam Chomsky. 32. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.lessor-lessee A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Converses. 33. The hyponyms of See, except A) Nod. B) Glimpse. C) Stare. D) Glance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nod. 34. Fluke (A stroke of luck) and Fluke (The end parts of an anchor) A) Homophone. B) Homonym. C) Homograph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homonym. 35. The relation of A and B:A) John is single.B) John is married. A) Presupposition. B) Entailment. C) Synonymy. D) Contradiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contradiction. 36. Which of the following is usually a feature of lexis rather than semantics? A) Connotation. B) Taboo language. C) Metaphor. D) Polysemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taboo language. 37. There are other type of content words. Choose between the following: A) Not-this-those-where. B) That-has-under-these. C) No-did-when-never. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not-this-those-where. 38. My bachelor friends are all married. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contradiction. 39. The evening star isn't Venus. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Other Sentences. 40. The Semantical Implicature is A) Misunderstood. B) What you mean is not always what you say. C) Always non verbal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What you mean is not always what you say. 41. The study of how context contributes to meaning in language. A) Semantics. B) Morphology. C) Pragmatics. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pragmatics. 42. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.parent-offspring A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Converses. 43. Choose one group of verbs below containing TWO-PLACE predicates A) Steal, inspect, throw. B) Inspect, lie, offer. C) Want, rise, revive. D) Want, read, sigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Steal, inspect, throw. 44. What do we call the real world object a word denotes? A) Referent. B) Person. C) Thing. D) Event. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Referent. 45. The antonyms below are graded antonyms, except ..... A) Fast x Slow. B) Big x Small. C) Wide x Narrow. D) Present x Absent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Present x Absent. 46. What is the semantics relationship between (or among) the following words? take:grasp, carry, go (a specific way) A) Hyponymy. B) Polysemy. C) Metonymy. D) Synonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polysemy. 47. 'When 1) John loves Lisa, do you think that 2) Lisa loves John?' The expression above represents the types of true and false condition of ..... A) Utterance. B) Proposition. C) Sentence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proposition. 48. Lexical semantics is A) The study of word formation. B) The study of the meanings of words. C) The study of the meanings of sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The study of the meanings of words. 49. These are types of meaning except A) Meaning. B) Associative. C) Referential. D) Implied. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Implied. 50. Which one is a referring expression?A:His father married a dancerB:John wants to marry a dancer A) A. B) B. C) Both A and B. D) Neither A nor B. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. 51. In the sentence "A cat is an animal" is an example of: A) Contradiction. B) Antonymy. C) Synonymy. D) Hyponymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyponymy. 52. Kings are female. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contradiction. 53. An ant has six paws.Xiomara is my aunt. A) Ant / aunt:Homophone. B) Ant / aunt:Homonym. C) Ant / aunt:Homograph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ant / aunt:Homophone. 54. The domain of ..... includes the words ..... A) Pets / birds and cat food. B) Colors / sunflower and blue cypress. C) Trees / oak and pine. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trees / oak and pine. 55. What would be the reason to use an Anaphora? A) To keep the reader intersted. B) To empathize that word. C) To make the speech stand out. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To empathize that word. 56. Choose the non-gradable antonyms(Only one answer) A) Dead-Alive. B) Cooked-Raw. C) Dark-Bright. D) Wet-Dry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dead-Alive. 57. The action performed by a speaker. A) Inference. B) Reference. C) Presuposition. D) Speech act. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speech act. 58. The word bachelor can be represented with the componential analysis in the following way A) [+adult], [-male], [-married]. B) [+adult], [+male], [-married]. C) [+adult], [+male], [+married]. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) [+adult], [+male], [-married]. 59. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.beautiful-ugly A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complementaries. 60. Denotative meaning mostly talks about the real meaning of a word. A) Pragmatics. B) Semantics. C) Syntax. D) None of above. 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