This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following characters is used to create a closing tag? A) . B) -. C) /. D) |. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) /. 2. Meaning in context is under the area of ..... A) Pragmatics. B) Morphology. C) Semantics. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pragmatics. 3. What are the paraphrasing tips in semantics? A) Passive, clearly, informative. B) Dependent clause, active, informative. C) Clearly, active, dependent clause. D) Active, transformation, inversion, dependent clauses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Active, transformation, inversion, dependent clauses. 4. The same pronunciation but different spelling and meaning is called ..... A) Homonyms. B) Collocation. C) Homophones. D) Hyponyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homophones. 5. Similes are comparison that uses the word ..... in a sentence. A) Like. B) As. C) Such. D) All correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All correct. 6. How many referring expressions can be found in the following sentence? A dentist is a person who looks after people's teeth . A) 3. B) 0. C) 1. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0. 7. Which maxim is violated in the following conversation:A: "How are you?"B: "I'm dead" A) Quality. B) Quantity. C) Manner. D) Relevance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quality. 8. Queens are ugly. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Other Sentences. 9. A figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is. A) Treatise. B) Understatement. C) Undertone. D) Wit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. 10. "Tony pushed the cart to the wall" . What is the semantic role of "wall" ? A) Theme. B) Instrument. C) Location. D) Agent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Location. 11. Decide whether the following could represent a sentence: A) Not much. B) I am a student. The world is my home. C) 'John is running.'. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I am a student. The world is my home. 12. Two words with very closely related meanings. A) Homonyms. B) Antonyms. C) Synonyms. D) Hyponymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synonyms. 13. Who suggested that a child learns 10 new words per months but understands 22 new words per month? A) Helen Bell, 1979. B) Helen Benedict, 1997. C) Belen Henedict, 1942. D) Helen Benedict, 1979. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Helen Benedict, 1979. 14. "Now" is an example of: A) Proximal spatial deixis. B) Distal temporal deixis. C) Distal person deixis. D) Proximal temporal deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Proximal temporal deixis. 15. Here2. There3. Hospital4. Eminonu Market5. YesterdayWhich of the above is the deictic? A) 1, 2, 3. B) 3, 4, 5. C) 1, 2, 5. D) 1, 2, 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1, 2, 5. 16. "Here" is an example of: A) Distal person deixis. B) Proximal spatial deixis. C) Proximal temporal deixis. D) Distal temporal deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proximal spatial deixis. 17. A. Uncles are male. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tautology. 18. The relationship between linguistic form and real entities in the world is the process of ..... which naturally comes in our brain. A) Phonology. B) Semantics. C) Pragmatics. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semantics. 19. The set of other words used in same phrase or sentence. A) Phonemes. B) Physical context. C) Morphemes. D) Co-text. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Co-text. 20. What is "Social 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: A) It relates the words to whom it utters them. 21. The meaning is generally accepted. A) Pragmatics. B) Semantics. C) Morphology. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semantics. 22. Which one is the irony? A) My brother was just released from the big house. B) The story jumped off the page. C) Winner of a spelling bee failing a spelling test. D) Life is a highway. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Winner of a spelling bee failing a spelling test. 23. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.hot-cold A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complementaries. 24. If you use an adverb in front of an adjective to boost or soften the meaning, what is this adverb known as? A) A determiner. B) A preposition. C) A conjunction. D) An intensifier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An intensifier. 25. How many referring expressions can be found in the following sentence?I am looking for any parrot that can sing. A) 2. B) 1. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1. 26. Which one is a generic sentence? A) A bee's just stung me. B) That gentleman prefers blondes. C) The whales at Seaworld entertain visitors. D) A bird lays eggs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A bird lays eggs. 27. "I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." A) Tone. B) Thesis. C) Theme. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understatement. 28. The part of the meaning of the utterance of a declarative sentence which describes some state of affairs A) Sentence. B) Utterance. C) Proposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proposition. 29. In the domain of colors, ..... is more marked than ..... A) Olive green / green. B) Green / mint. C) Emerald / pale yellow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Olive green / green. 30. Two words with very closely related meaning is ..... A) Antonyms. B) Hyponymy. C) Synonyms. D) Homonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synonyms. 31. According to Griffiths, what are prototypes? A) They are central members of the denotation of a word. B) They are final members of the denotation of a word. C) They are middle term members of the conotation of a word. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are central members of the denotation of a word. 32. 'employer' vs. 'employee' are what kind of antonyms? A) Gradable. B) Complementary. C) Reverse. D) Converse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Converse. 33. How many referring expressions can be found in the following sentence?I saw a doctor yesterday. A) 2. B) 1. C) 0. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 34. After Amy sneezed all of the salad, she proceeded to serve it to her guests. A) Slippery Slope. B) Subordinate Clause. C) Solecism. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subordinate Clause. 35. Feelings and reactions to words are the element of meaning called A) Associative meaning. B) Referential meaning. C) Definite meaning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Associative meaning. 36. In the Charles Peirce Triad there are three ways to represent something: A) Ironically Indexically Symbolically. B) Ironically Indexically Semantics. C) Ironically Interpreted Symbolically. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ironically Indexically Symbolically. 37. When one sentence being true means another sentence must also be true this is called? A) Entitlement. B) Entailment. C) Contigency. D) Logical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Entailment. 38. Which maxim is violated in the following conversation:A:"What time is it?"B: "It is 10:44 and 35.6 seconds" A) Relevance. B) Quality. C) Manner. D) Quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quantity. 39. Which maxim is violated in the following conversation:A: "Are you going to Steve's barbecue?"B: "A barbecue is an outdoor party." A) Quantity. B) Quality. C) Manner. D) Relevance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quantity. 40. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.poor-rich A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gradable. 41. ..... depends in the context of the utterance and shared knowledge between the speaker and the hearer. A) Implicature. B) Word meaning. C) Speech acts. D) Presuposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Implicature. 42. It is an additional information used by the listeners to connect what is said to what must be meant. A) Presuposition. B) Reference. C) Inference. D) Speech act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inference. 43. Check which sentence is not literal A) My hair is black just like my mother's. B) His hair is red as a carrot. C) Her hair is beautiful since she got it cut. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His hair is red as a carrot. 44. Expressing someone else's meaning using different words to achieve clarity is the definition of ..... A) Entailment. B) Ambiguity. C) Paraphrasing. D) Collocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paraphrasing. 45. Classify this type of politeness strategy: "You wouldn't happen to have five dollars I could borrow, would you?" A) Bald-on-record. B) Off-receord. C) Positive politeness. D) Negative politeness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative politeness. 46. The time and place in which we encounter a linguistic expression. A) Semantic meaning. B) Co-text. C) Physical context. D) Associative meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Physical context. 47. An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. Is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. A) Tone. B) Transition. C) Theme. D) Thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 48. Classify this type of politeness strategy: "Give me five dollars." A) Negative politeness. B) Off-record. C) Positive politeness. D) Bald-on-record. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bald-on-record. 49. What are the components of denotation? A) Left and right. B) Receptive and productive. C) Reference and sense. D) Intension and extension. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intension and extension. 50. Has she been studying all morning? (funtional word). A) Has, been, maria. B) All, morning, been. C) Has, been, she, ing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has, been, she, ing. 51. When one form (written or spoken) has two or more unrelated meanings (bat-flying creature/bat-used in baseball). A) Hyponym. B) Synonyms. C) Homonyms. D) Hyponymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homonyms. 52. Music-opera, color-red and material-paper A) Homographs. B) Polysemes. C) Homophones. D) Hyponyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyponyms. 53. Utterances have the same referential meaning but may have different pragmatic meaning depending on A) Word order. B) The context in which they are used. C) The intention of the speaker. D) Both 1 & 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both 1 & 2. 54. The music is amazing. A) Complex. B) Compound. C) Simple. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simple. 55. Linguistic pragmatics is the study of the ability of language users to pair sentences with the context in which they would be appropriate A) Yes. B) No. C) It depends on the theory of the investigator. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 56. An anaphoric reference ..... A) Helps the text make sense. B) Links forward to another part of the text. C) Refers back to another part of the text. D) Give us information about time and place. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refers back to another part of the text. 57. Stative verbs refer to a state or condition that is quite static and unchanging. What do dynamic verbs do? A) Express understanding. B) Express belief. C) Express actions. D) Express relationships between things. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Express actions. 58. Semantic features are A) Elements of a word's associative meaning. B) Elements of a word's referential meaning. C) Elements of context. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elements of a word's referential meaning. 59. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.rude-polite A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complementaries. 60. When I tell my friend, "No, your boyfriend left alone that night, " and I know this sentence to be untrue, I am violating the maxim of ..... A) Manner. B) Relevance. C) Quality. D) Quantity. 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