This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What do you call the word "right" A) Homonyms. B) Homophones. C) Homographs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homonyms. 2. Example of anomaly: A) Nice the dog was really. B) The dog was really nice. C) Tha's a really nice dog. D) Nice dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nice the dog was really. 3. The A) Definite article. B) Indefinite article. C) Possessive determiner. D) Quantifier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Definite article. 4. My aunt is a man. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contradiction. 5. Someone A) Subordinating conjunction. B) Article. C) Personal pron. D) Indefinite pronoun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indefinite pronoun. 6. It is the idea of true or false about a fact which is in the level of human thought A) Sentence. B) Proposition. C) Utterance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proposition. 7. Babies are adults. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contradiction. 8. To, too, two are examples of what A) Homonym. B) Homophone. C) Homograph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homophone. 9. Surreptitiously is the synonym for which word? A) Sacredly. B) Quickly. C) Secretively. D) Quietly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Secretively. 10. ..... is a relationship between parts of a language and things outside the language (in the world). A) Predicator. B) Prototype. C) Reference. D) Sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reference. 11. What is hyponymy? A) The hidden and implied meanings within language. B) The study of how sounds are created. C) The hierarchical structure that exists between lexical items. D) The study of symbols. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The hierarchical structure that exists between lexical items. 12. A group of words that share the same semantic properties constitute: A) A mental image. B) A semantic domain. C) Marked terms. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A semantic domain. 13. In the sentence Your opinion means a lot to me, the word mean means A) Denote. B) Cause. C) Have the importance of. D) Indicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Have the importance of. 14. Find the 'homophone' A) Minute / minute. B) Waste / waist. C) Error / mistake. D) Tear / tear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Waste / waist. 15. "Jane ate a piece of chicken. Jane ate a piece of poultry"Describe the semantic relationship expressed from this sentence A) Paraphrase. B) Entailment. C) Ambiguity. D) Contradiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Entailment. 16. In the expression, "There has to be give and take, " 'give' vs. 'take' are what kind of antonyms? A) Gradable. B) Reverse. C) Complementary. D) Converse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Converse. 17. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.larger-smaller A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gradable. 18. "All HANDS on board" is an example of A) Polysemy. B) Metonymy. C) Homonymy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. 19. 'hot' vs. 'cold' are what kind of antonyms? A) Gradable. B) Reverse. C) Complementary. D) Converse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gradable. 20. Which maxim is violated in the following conversation:A: "Would you like a cocktail? It's my own invention. "B: "Well, mmm uh it not that we don't drink." A) Quality. B) Quantity. C) Relevance. D) Manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Manner. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesSemantics Quiz 1Semantics 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