This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 1 (20 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) Arbitrariness. C) Rational. D) Trustworthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arbitrariness. 3. The relation of A and B:A) Mel is older than Jayime.B) Mel is younger than Jayime. A) Synonymy. B) Contradiction. C) Presupposition. D) Entailment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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) Entailment. D) Presupposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Presupposition. 5. Two forms with opposite meanings is ..... A) Antonyms. B) Synonyms. C) Metonymy. D) Hyponymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antonyms. 6. Which sentence is a simile in this below? A) A fire station burns down. B) She swims like a fish. C) You are my sunshine. D) Time is money. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She swims like a fish. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. The relatedness of polysemy is essentially based on similarity. ..... is using one to refer to the other. A) Synonyms. B) Metonymy. C) Antonyms. D) Hyponymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. 10. Meaning which a speaker or writer intends but it is not communicated directly. A) Denotation. B) Implication. C) Collocation. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Implication. 11. What type of deictic expressions are:now, then and yesterday A) Personal. B) Temporal. C) Virtual. D) Spatial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temporal. 12. The relation of A and B:A) She has many homeworks to check!B) She is a teacher. A) Synonymy. B) Contradiction. C) Entailment. D) Presupposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Presupposition. 13. The words that are mentioned below are called compounding, EXCEPT ..... A) Daydream. B) Bookstore. C) Talked. D) Honeydew. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Talked. 14. ..... :the meaning the viewer gives to the photograph-what is signified A) Semantics. B) Syntax. C) Rhetoric. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Semantics. 15. Neologism:'fridge' is an example of ..... A) A loan. B) A composite. C) A shortening. D) A blend. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A shortening. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. 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). 19. What is this an example of:'she's got a chip on her shoulder' A) Euphemism. B) Dysphemism. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 20. It is not limited in regional language A) Utterance. B) Sentence. C) Proposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proposition. Next →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesSemantics Quiz 2Semantics Quiz 3Semantics Quiz 4Semantics Quiz 5Semantics Quiz 6Semantics Quiz 7Semantics Quiz 8Semantics Quiz 9Semantics Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books