This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 20 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. A) Syllogism. B) Symbol/Symbolism. C) Synecdoche. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synecdoche. 2. What might modal auxiliary verbs do? A) Express possibility, doubt or politeness. B) Help to form tenses. C) Give grammatical information. D) Tell us where something happens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Express possibility, doubt or politeness. 3. Dog, cat, turtle are hyponyms of ..... A) Sea turtle. B) Golden retriever. C) Pet. D) Feline. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pet. 4. When you have a problem, you could solve it in wrong order, but if you talking with your partner, they could help you and give some ideas for solve it in the best way. A) Complex. B) Compound. C) Complex-Compound. D) Simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complex-Compound. 5. What is the best definition for "meronymy" ? A) A word with two or more synonyms. B) The relation of part to whole. C) When two or more words share the same meaning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The relation of part to whole. 6. George Washington is George Washington. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Other Sentences. 7. Which one is not a generic sentence? A) The tiger can't talk. B) Parrots can talk. C) That bird can't talk. D) Humans can talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That bird can't talk. 8. Which one below cannot be used as a referring expression? A) Tom. B) My left ear. C) Give. D) A boy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Give. 9. Which one is not include compositional semantic relationship A) Paraphrasing. B) Entailment. C) Ambiguity. D) Polysemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polysemy. 10. What is the productive vocabulary of an average 2 year old? A) 50 words. B) 1000 words. C) 200 words. D) 500 words. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 200 words. 11. Which one is correct for a component analysis of whale? A) + lives in the river. B) + fish. C) + with legs. D) + mammal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) + mammal. 12. Which word is NOT a co-hyponym of "see" ? A) Stare. B) Watch. C) Glimpse. D) Smile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Smile. 13. Which one can be a three-place predicate? A) In. B) Give. C) Sneeze. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Give. 14. What is the meaning of semantic? A) The study of the characteristics of speech sound. B) The study of systems and patterns of speech sounds in a language. C) The study of meaning in language. D) The study of forms of language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The study of meaning in language. 15. Semantics also helps us to understand processes such as ..... and language change A) Symbol. B) Referent. C) Language acquisition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Language acquisition. 16. The study of meaning in human language is the definition of ..... A) Syntax. B) Pragmatics. C) Semantics. D) Morphology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Semantics. 17. What do we call the affective dimension of word meaning? A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Association. D) Collocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 18. Read the situations below. Select what implies to metonymy . A) How many fingers are in a hand?. B) Put your hands to the air for stretching. C) Your hands are beautiful!. D) Can you give me a hand?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Can you give me a hand?. 19. Which type of deictic expression uses tense and time adverbials? A) Temporal. B) Personal. C) Spatial. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temporal. 20. 'Fine weather' / 'I feel fine'-In these phrases 'fine' is an example of: A) Homophones. B) Homographs. C) Polysemy. D) Meronymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polysemy. ← 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