Semantics Quiz 17 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is it called when two words, pharase or sentence have the same spelling but different pronunciation and meaning
2. Knight, night; buy, by, bye; marry, merry, are examples of
3. The information about the social nature of the language user or of the context of utterance
4. A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things. It draws resemblance with the help of the words "like" or "as."
5. How many referring expressions are there in Juanita is beautiful?
6. What maxim discusses about making your contribution as informative as required and no more?
7. Semantic meaning that involves or is arbitrary.
8. A set of rules in a language. It dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought.
9. Figurative interpretations use ..... as its foundation for inferring which referents are being talked about.
10. If we let this child bring the permission slip late, there is no reason to ever set a deadline for anything again!
11. Classify this type of politeness strategy: "Let's all turn down the music and have a good night."
12. Etymology is the study of .....
13. These are the component analysis of girl, except
14. Cats are stupid.
15. My sister is an only child.
16. What is homophone?
17. The principles of compositionality are mentioned below, EXCEPT .....
18. Tom is as angry as a hornet.
19. Meaning which a speaker or writer intends but it is not communicated directly. this is the definition of .....
20. 'always' vs. 'never' are what kind of antonyms?