This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 10 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Sew-so-sow A) Homophone. B) Homonym. C) Polysemy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homophone. 2. These are the hyponym of gemstones, except A) Ruby. B) Diamond. C) Gold. D) Emerald. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gold. 3. A clause, typically introduced by a conjunction, that forms part of and is dependent on a main clause A) Stance. B) Straw Man. C) Style/Stylistic. D) Subordinate Clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subordinate Clause. 4. 'Palatable' vs. 'unpalatable' are what kind of antonyms? A) Gradable. B) Reverse. C) Complementary. D) Converse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gradable. 5. Where do you live? This is Harry Style's live concert What do the group of words represent the red highlighted? A) Homographs. B) Polysemes. C) Collocations. D) Semantic fields. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homographs. 6. At the end of the day A) Fixed expression. B) Antonym. C) Dysphemism. D) Synonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fixed expression. 7. Which type of antonym is "grow/shrink?" A) Complementary. B) Gradable. C) Reverse. D) Converse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reverse. 8. When two or more different (written) forms have the same pronunciation, they are called ..... (bear/bare, meat/meet, right/write) A) Homophones. B) Hyponym. C) Co-hyponyms. D) Homonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homophones. 9. The use of objects or ideas to signify other ideas and qualities by giving them meanings that are different from their literal sense. A) Syllogism. B) Symbol/Symbolism. C) Synecdoche. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol/Symbolism. 10. Neologism:'cuisine' is an example of ..... A) A loan. B) A composite. C) A blend. D) A shift. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A loan. 11. A written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject. A) Treatise. B) Understatement. C) Undertone. D) Wit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Treatise. 12. Flower-rose-red rose Flower is . . . A) Homonymy. B) Hypernym. C) Co-hyponym. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypernym. 13. Sentence meaning is in the area of ..... A) Pragmatics. B) Semantics. C) Morphology. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semantics. 14. Words and phrases that provide a connection between ideas, sentences and paragraphs. A) Theme. B) Thesis. C) Tone. D) Transition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transition. 15. Read the situations below. Select what implies to metaphor . A) He is very young. B) Age is just a number. C) We are older than you. D) This is a number. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Age is just a number. 16. 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. 17. What does the manner of the text refer to? A) The vocabulary of the text. B) Where the text is published. C) The formality of the text. D) Whether the text is spoken or written. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The formality of the text. 18. If you say table, most people will say chair. This is the example of? A) Polysemy. B) Antonymy. C) Collocation. D) Word play. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Collocation. 19. In English, the expression that generally occurs immediately to the left of the verb is the ..... A) Subject. B) Object. C) Adjunct. D) Complement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subject. 20. 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. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesSemantics Quiz 1Semantics Quiz 2Semantics Quiz 3Semantics Quiz 4Semantics Quiz 5Semantics Quiz 6Semantics Quiz 7Semantics Quiz 8Semantics Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books