This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which one is a homograph? A) Tear. B) Mean. C) Ring. D) Well. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tear. 2. A relationship in which the meaning of one form is included in the meaning of another (animal/horse, insect/ant); looks at words in hierarchical relationships A) Synonyms. B) Homonyms. C) Hyponymy. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyponymy. 3. Plants need to carbon dioxide to live. The oak tree is a plant. The oak tree needs carbon dioxide to live. A) Straw Man. B) Simile. C) Syllogism. D) Wit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syllogism. 4. My brother is a witch. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Other Sentences. 5. Neologism:'armchair' is an example of ..... A) A loan. B) A composite. C) A blend. D) A shift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A composite. 6. Homonym A) A set of words that always go together. B) A word that shares the same form but has unrelated meaning. C) A word that has multiple meanings. D) A word that has the same sound but different spelling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A word that shares the same form but has unrelated meaning. 7. In a particular regional accent A) Utterance. B) Sentence. C) Proposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Utterance. 8. Word classes can be split into two groups:lexical and ..... A) Useful. B) Semantic. C) Superlative. D) Grammatical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grammatical. 9. It is an act by which a speaker (or writer) uses language to enable a listener (or reader) to identify something. A) Inference. B) Speech act. C) Presuposition. D) Reference. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reference. 10. What is an example of plesionym? A) Rain/fog. B) Bark/bark. C) Misty/foggy. D) Sell/cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Misty/foggy. 11. Where an entity is (on the table). A) Implication. B) Denotation. C) Collocation. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Location. 12. These are relational pairs antonym, except A) Give x take. B) Buy x sell. C) Teach x learn. D) Life x death. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buy x sell. 13. Short phrases, or single words, are used by people in communication all the time A) Sentence. B) Proposition. C) Utterance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Utterance. 14. What is absolute synonymy? A) Lexemes with same meaning, one can be substituted for the other. B) Lexemes with similar meaning. C) Almost indistinguishable difference in meaning of words. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lexemes with same meaning, one can be substituted for the other. 15. The music are producing dopamine, so you will feel happiness in your brain. A) Complex. B) Simple. C) Compound. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compound. 16. Is the emotional connotation that is attached to words and utterances A) Affective meaning. B) Social meaning. C) Linguistic meaning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affective meaning. 17. Which is TRUE lexical semantics relationships A) Synonyms, Antonyms, Hyponyms, Homonyms. B) Synonyms, Antonyms, Entailment, Polysemy. C) Paraphrasing, Polysemy, Collocation, Entaliment. D) Phonetics, Syntax, Morphology, Semantics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synonyms, Antonyms, Hyponyms, Homonyms. 18. What do we call the limitations on the use of a word with relation to the contexts in which it can be used? A) Semantic features. B) Homonymy. C) Semantic constraints. D) Semantic associations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Semantic constraints. 19. "If Jasmine cannot go to the morning appointment, she will go to the afternoon one. (one = appointment)." This is an example of what type of linguistic reference? A) Anaphora. B) Coreference. C) Deixis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 20. What's the relation between the has-relation and entailments? A) It makes entailment available. B) It does not make entailment available. C) It makes entailment as obligation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It makes entailment available. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesSemantics Quiz 1Semantics Quiz 2Semantics Quiz 3Semantics Quiz 4Semantics Quiz 5Semantics Quiz 7Semantics Quiz 8Semantics Quiz 9Semantics Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books