This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 12 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. The relation of A and B:A) John is single.B) John is married. A) Synonymy. B) Presupposition. C) Entailment. D) Contradiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contradiction. 3. Which of the following is usually a feature of lexis rather than semantics? A) Connotation. B) Polysemy. C) Metaphor. D) Taboo language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taboo language. 4. 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. 5. My bachelor friends are all married. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contradiction. 6. The evening star isn't Venus. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Other Sentences. 7. But A) Preposition. B) Conjunction. C) They tend. D) Affix. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conjunction. 8. 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. 9. The study of how context contributes to meaning in language. A) Morphology. B) Semantics. C) Pragmatics. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pragmatics. 10. 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. 11. Bigger A) Base adjective. B) Comparative adjective. C) Superlative adjective. D) Superlative adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comparative adjective. 12. Choose one group of verbs below containing TWO-PLACE predicates A) Want, read, sigh. B) Steal, inspect, throw. C) Inspect, lie, offer. D) Want, rise, revive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Steal, inspect, throw. 13. What do we call the real world object a word denotes? A) Thing. B) Person. C) Event. D) Referent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Referent. 14. 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. 15. What is the semantics relationship between (or among) the following words? take:grasp, carry, go (a specific way) A) Synonymy. B) Hyponymy. C) Metonymy. D) Polysemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polysemy. 16. '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. 17. 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. 18. These are types of meaning except A) Referential. B) Implied. C) Associative. D) Meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Implied. 19. 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. 20. In the sentence "A cat is an animal" is an example of: A) Antonymy. B) Synonymy. C) Hyponymy. D) Contradiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyponymy. ← 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