Semantics Quiz 13 (20 MCQs)

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1. Kings are female.

Correct Answer: A) Contradiction.

2. An ant has six paws.Xiomara is my aunt.

Correct Answer: A) Ant / aunt:Homophone.

3. The domain of ..... includes the words .....

Correct Answer: C) Trees / oak and pine.

4. What would be the reason to use an Anaphora?

Correct Answer: B) To empathize that word.

5. Choose the non-gradable antonyms(Only one answer)

Correct Answer: A) Dead-Alive.

6. The action performed by a speaker.

Correct Answer: B) Speech act.

7. The word bachelor can be represented with the componential analysis in the following way

Correct Answer: B) [+adult], [+male], [-married].

8. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.beautiful-ugly

Correct Answer: B) Complementaries.

9. Denotative meaning mostly talks about the real meaning of a word.

Correct Answer: B) Semantics.

10. Which of the following characters is used to create a closing tag?

Correct Answer: C) /.

11. Meaning in context is under the area of .....

Correct Answer: A) Pragmatics.

12. Those

Correct Answer: C) Demonstrative pronoun.

13. What are the paraphrasing tips in semantics?

Correct Answer: A) Active, transformation, inversion, dependent clauses.

14. The same pronunciation but different spelling and meaning is called .....

Correct Answer: D) Homophones.

15. Similes are comparison that uses the word ..... in a sentence.

Correct Answer: D) All correct.

16. How many referring expressions can be found in the following sentence? A dentist is a person who looks after people's teeth .

Correct Answer: A) 0.

17. Which maxim is violated in the following conversation:A: "How are you?"B: "I'm dead"

Correct Answer: A) Quality.

18. Queens are ugly.

Correct Answer: C) Other Sentences.

19. A figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is.

Correct Answer: B) Understatement.

20. "Tony pushed the cart to the wall" . What is the semantic role of "wall" ?

Correct Answer: C) Location.