This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 7 (36 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Adjective and adverbs can be placed in the same category. What is this category known as? A) Intensifiers. B) Comparatives. C) Superlatives. D) Modifiers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modifiers. 2. "That is a large bat." Describe the semantic relationship expressed from this sentence A) Ambiguity-Metonymy. B) Ambiguity-Homographs. C) Ambiguity-Polysemy. D) Ambiguity-Homonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ambiguity-Homonymy. 3. What are Aitchison's 3 stages of semantic acquisition? A) Labelling, packaging and networking. B) Labelling, packaging and network building. C) Naming, packaging and network building. D) Labelling, boxing and networking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Labelling, packaging and network building. 4. "Everyone has their own definition of happiness" what kind of principle of compositionality is this? A) Sentence meaning-speaker meaning. B) Individual differences. C) Contextualized meaning. D) Knowledge problem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Individual differences. 5. The meaning is very subjective depending on who the speaker is. A) Pragmatics. B) Morphology. C) Semantics. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pragmatics. 6. Which of the following can be loud? A) Utterance. B) Sentence. C) Proposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Utterance. 7. A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. A) Symbol/Symbolism. B) Synecdoche. C) Syllogism. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche. 8. What might modal auxiliary verbs do? A) Help to form tenses. B) Tell us where something happens. C) Give grammatical information. D) Express possibility, doubt or politeness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Express possibility, doubt or politeness. 9. Dog, cat, turtle are hyponyms of ..... A) Golden retriever. B) Feline. C) Sea turtle. D) Pet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pet. 10. When you have a problem, you could solve it in wrong order, but if you talking with your partner, they could help you and give some ideas for solve it in the best way. A) Compound. B) Complex. C) Complex-Compound. D) Simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complex-Compound. 11. What is the best definition for "meronymy" ? A) A word with two or more synonyms. B) The relation of part to whole. C) When two or more words share the same meaning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The relation of part to whole. 12. George Washington is George Washington. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Other Sentences. 13. Which one below cannot be used as a referring expression? A) My left ear. B) Tom. C) Give. D) A boy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Give. 14. Which one is not include compositional semantic relationship A) Entailment. B) Paraphrasing. C) Polysemy. D) Ambiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polysemy. 15. What is the productive vocabulary of an average 2 year old? A) 50 words. B) 200 words. C) 500 words. D) 1000 words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 200 words. 16. Which one is correct for a component analysis of whale? A) + fish. B) + mammal. C) + lives in the river. D) + with legs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) + mammal. 17. Which word is NOT a co-hyponym of "see" ? A) Glimpse. B) Watch. C) Stare. D) Smile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Smile. 18. Which one can be a three-place predicate? A) Love. B) In. C) Give. D) Sneeze. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Give. 19. What is the meaning of semantic? A) The study of the characteristics of speech sound. B) The study of systems and patterns of speech sounds in a language. C) The study of meaning in language. D) The study of forms of language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The study of meaning in language. 20. Semantics also helps us to understand processes such as ..... and language change A) Symbol. B) Referent. C) Language acquisition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Language acquisition. 21. The study of meaning in human language is the definition of ..... A) Morphology. B) Semantics. C) Pragmatics. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semantics. 22. What do we call the affective dimension of word meaning? A) Association. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Collocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 23. Read the situations below. Select what implies to metonymy . A) How many fingers are in a hand?. B) Put your hands to the air for stretching. C) Your hands are beautiful!. D) Can you give me a hand?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Can you give me a hand?. 24. Which type of deictic expression uses tense and time adverbials? A) Location. B) Spatial. C) Personal. D) Temporal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Temporal. 25. 'Fine weather' / 'I feel fine'-In these phrases 'fine' is an example of: A) Meronymy. B) Polysemy. C) Homographs. D) Homophones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polysemy. 26. "I smelled the fragrance of flowers in the air." Which one is the experiencer in this sentence? A) Fragrance of flowers. B) Smelled. C) I. D) Air. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I. 27. Examples of Polysemes A) Meet-meat, sun-son, aloud-allowed. B) Book, fair and get. C) Deal with, succeed in, based on. D) Kiwi-fruit, red-color, coat-clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Book, fair and get. 28. Which of these is reversives antonym? A) Married/single. B) Old/new. C) Pack/unpack. D) Bland/delicious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pack/unpack. 29. How many referring expressions can you find in this list?sad, Elsa, dog, my dog, Venus, swimming, the girl over there, happily A) 2. B) 4. C) 3. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 30. Things you can see, feel and touch are known as ..... A) Proper nouns. B) Collective nouns. C) Concrete nouns. D) Abstract nouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concrete nouns. 31. Studies HOW PEOPLE MAKE SENSE OFEACH OTHER LINGUISTICALLY.For example:A:So ..... did you?B:Hey ..... who wouldn't? A) Indexicals. B) Deixis. C) Pragmatics. D) Grammar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pragmatics. 32. After the protests, maybe Washington will listen to the voters A) Metonymy. B) Polysemy. C) Hyponymy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 33. You really must win. A) Imperative. B) Exclamative. C) Declarative. D) Modal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modal. 34. A similar word for "slim" A) Fat. B) Chubby. C) Thin. D) Big. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thin. 35. Everyone has his own definatation of the word "boyfriend" what concern does the statement refer to A) Speaker meaning. B) Knowladge problem. C) Indivdual differences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indivdual differences. 36. When one form (written or spoken) has two or more unrelated meanings, they are called ..... [bank (of a river) / bank (financial institution)] A) Homonyms. B) Metonymy. C) Antonyms. D) Hyponym. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homonyms. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesSemantics Quiz 1Semantics Quiz 2Semantics Quiz 3Semantics Quiz 4Semantics Quiz 5Semantics Quiz 6 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books