TNTRB ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ENGLISH UNIT -V MCQS
MCQs 1–100 (Unit 5: Literary Forms, Movements, Terms, Linguistics)
1. The term “objective
correlative” is associated with which critic?
A. I. A. Richards
B. T. S. Eliot
C. Cleanth Brooks
D. F. R. Leavis
Answer: B
2. “Stream of Consciousness”
as a narrative method was influenced by which psychologist?
A. Pavlov
B. Jung
C. Freud
D. William James
Answer: D
3. The “Ode” is primarily a
form of:
A. Dramatic poetry
B. Lyric poetry
C. Satirical poetry
D. Ballad form
Answer: B
4. The Picaresque novel
typically features:
A. A rogue hero on episodic adventures
B. Mythical gods and goddesses
C. Political allegory
D. Psychological realism
Answer: A
5. Which is NOT a feature of
Classical Tragedy?
A. Hamartia
B. Catharsis
C. Deus ex machina
D. Epiphany
Answer: D
6. Who defined poetry as
“the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”?
A. Coleridge
B. Arnold
C. Wordsworth
D. Keats
Answer: C
7. Structuralism in
literature was inspired by the linguistic theories of:
A. Bloomfield
B. Saussure
C. Chomsky
D. Halliday
Answer: B
8. The “New Criticism”
movement emphasized:
A. Reader’s emotions
B. Author’s biography
C. Close reading of the text
D. Historical context
Answer: C
9. Morphology deals with:
A. Sound system
B. Word formation
C. Sentence structure
D. Meaning in context
Answer: B
10. A “sonnet” traditionally
contains:
A. 10 lines
B. 12 lines
C. 14 lines
D. 16 lines
Answer: C
11. “Point of view” in
fiction refers to:
A. Narrative voice position
B. Moral lesson
C. Plot structure
D. Symbolism
Answer: A
12. “Metonymy” involves:
A. Part for whole
B. Whole for part
C. Substituting associated term
D. Exaggeration
Answer: C
13. Generative Grammar is
associated with:
A. Saussure
B. Chomsky
C. Halliday
D. Sapir
Answer: B
14. Which movement rejected
Victorian morality?
A. Romanticism
B. Modernism
C. Symbolism
D. Classicism
Answer: B
15. Pragmatics deals with:
A. Sentence meaning
B. Word origin
C. Meaning in context
D. Stress pattern
Answer: C
16. The “Comedy of Manners”
is associated with:
A. Congreve
B. Shakespeare
C. Eliot
D. Beckett
Answer: A
17. “Bildungsroman” means:
A. Love story
B. Psychological novel
C. Novel of growth
D. War novel
Answer: C
18. “Free Verse” is known
for:
A. Rhyme scheme
B. Fixed meter
C. Breaking traditional rules
D. Only syllabic rhythm
Answer: C
19. Who wrote “The Death of
the Author”?
A. Derrida
B. Barthes
C. Foucault
D. Eagleton
Answer: B
20. Syntax refers to:
A. Word formation
B. Sentence structure
C. Figurative meaning
D. Etymology
Answer: B
21. The term “Simile” means:
A. Comparison using “like/as”
B. Indirect comparison
C. Exaggeration
D. Understatement
Answer: A
22. Who proposed the
“Affective Filter Hypothesis”?
A. Hymes
B. Chomsky
C. Krashen
D. Piaget
Answer: C
23. “Modernism” began after:
A. WWI
B. WWII
C. French Revolution
D. Industrial Revolution
Answer: A
24. The “Heroic Couplet” is
used extensively by:
A. Wordsworth
B. Pope
C. Byron
D. Eliot
Answer: B
25. “Phoneme” means:
A. Smallest unit of sound
B. Smallest meaningful unit
C. Word cluster
D. Root form
Answer: A
26. An “Allegory” is best defined as:
A. Story with multiple plots
B. Story with symbolic meaning
C. Story with only historical facts
D. Story that uses humor only
Answer: B
27. “Intertextuality” was popularized by:
A. T. S. Eliot
B. Julia Kristeva
C. Gayatri Spivak
D. Homi Bhabha
Answer: B
28. “Stress” in phonology refers to:
A. Loudness of vowels
B. Emphasis on a syllable
C. Tone of the sentence
D. Meaning shift
Answer: B
29. The term “Mentor” in literature originates
from:
A. Dante’s Inferno
B. Virgil’s Aeneid
C. Homer’s Odyssey
D. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex
Answer: C
30. “Elegy” is mainly a poem of:
A. Celebration
B. Mourning
C. Humor
D. War
Answer: B
31. “Dramatic Monologue” is associated with:
A. Eliot
B. Wordsworth
C. Browning
D. Pope
Answer: C
32. Poetic “enjambment” means:
A. Internal rhyme
B. Forced rhyme
C. Run-on line
D. End-stop
Answer: C
33. “Signifier” and “Signified” were proposed by:
A. Bloomfield
B. Saussure
C. Sapir
D. Firth
Answer: B
34. “Haiku” poetry originated in:
A. China
B. Korea
C. Japan
D. India
Answer: C
35. The “New Historicism” movement was started by:
A. Greenblatt
B. Frye
C. Brooks
D. Barthes
Answer: A
36. “Anaphora” refers to:
A. Repetition at line endings
B. Repetition at beginnings
C. Opposite meanings
D. Mixed metaphors
Answer: B
37. The novel Pamela is known for
establishing:
A. Gothic tradition
B. Epistolary form
C. Allegorical tradition
D. Stream of consciousness
Answer: B
38. “Pidgin” is:
A. A broken language
B. A simplified contact language
C. A tribal language
D. A children’s language
Answer: B
39. “Modal auxiliaries” express:
A. Past time
B. Mood and possibility
C. Comparison
D. Definition
Answer: B
40. Aristotle’s Poetics mainly discusses:
A. Epic
B. Comedy
C. Tragedy
D. Lyric
Answer: C
41. “Metafiction” is fiction about:
A. Love
B. Itself
C. Politics
D. Religion
Answer: B
42. The “Father of Linguistics” is:
A. Saussure
B. Chomsky
C. Halliday
D. Sapir
Answer: A
43. “Semiotics” is the study of:
A. Poetry
B. Drama
C. Signs
D. Grammar
Answer: C
44. The “Pastoral Elegy” traditionally mourns:
A. A shepherd
B. A king
C. A soldier
D. A god
Answer: A
45. “Caesura” means:
A. A pause within a line
B. A pause between stanzas
C. A rhyme pattern
D. A shift in tone
Answer: A
46. “Ode to a Nightingale” is an example of:
A. Pindaric ode
B. Petrarchan ode
C. Horatian ode
D. Shakespearean ode
Answer: C
47. Syllogism is a form of:
A. Dramatic irony
B. Logical reasoning
C. Musical device
D. Grammar error
Answer: B
48. “Hegemony” was theorized by:
A. Marx
B. Gramsci
C. Freud
D. Derrida
Answer: B
49. “Dialect” refers to:
A. Standard English
B. Regional variety of a language
C. Slang
D. Punctuation
Answer: B
50. “Epistolary novel” means:
A. Novel in verse
B. Novel with letters
C. Novel with footnotes
D. Novel with pictures
Answer: B
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51. “Ballad” traditionally deals with:
A. Scientific themes
B. Folk tales and romance
C. Political satire
D. Epic war
Answer: B
52. “Allusion” refers to:
A. Detailed description
B. Reference to another text
C. Repetition of consonants
D. Unexpected ending
Answer: B
53. The “Omniscient narrator” knows:
A. Only one character’s thoughts
B. Nothing about characters
C. Everything in the story
D. Only dialogue
Answer: C
54. “Denouement” means:
A. The climax
B. The resolution
C. Rising action
D. Exposition
Answer: B
55. “Diction” refers to:
A. Grammar rules
B. Word choice
C. Spoken stress
D. Sound wave
Answer: B
56. “Ellipsis” means:
A. Added details
B. Omission of words
C. Over-description
D. Metaphorical twist
Answer: B
57. “Naturalism” emphasizes:
A. Divine destiny
B. Fate and environment
C. Scientific accuracy only
D. Supernatural elements
Answer: B
58. “Blank Verse” is:
A. Rhymed pentameter
B. Unrhymed pentameter
C. Irregular meter
D. Only prose
Answer: B
59. The term “Chiasmus” refers to:
A. Inverted parallelism
B. Exaggeration
C. Symbolic imagery
D. Metaphorical chain
Answer: A
60. “Free Indirect Speech” mixes:
A. Direct + slang
B. Direct + indirect
C. Past + present
D. Fiction + nonfiction
Answer: B
61. “Phonology” is concerned with:
A. Sentence structure
B. Sound systems
C. Meaning
D. History
Answer: B
62. “Imagism” belonged to:
A. Romantic era
B. Victorian era
C. Modernist era
D. Postmodernist era
Answer: C
**63. Which movement emphasizes loss,
fragmentation, uncertainty?
A. Realism
B. Modernism
C. Classicism
D. Symbolism
Answer: B
64. A “Trochee” is a foot with:
A. unstressed + stressed
B. stressed + unstressed
C. two stressed
D. two unstressed
Answer: B
65. Saussure distinguished between:
A. Morph vs. Morpheme
B. Langue vs. Parole
C. Stress vs. Tone
D. Syntax vs. Logic
Answer: B
66. “Alliteration” is repetition of:
A. Vowel sounds
B. Consonant sounds
C. Stress patterns
D. Entire lines
Answer: B
67. A “Palimpsest” originally referred to:
A. A carved stone
B. A reused manuscript
C. A stained glass
D. An oral poem
Answer: B
68. The “Sonnet sequence” is a series of sonnets
linked by:
A. Rhymes
B. Themes
C. Stanzas
D. Length
Answer: B
69. “Ethos, Pathos, Logos” were discussed by:
A. Aristotle
B. Plato
C. Socrates
D. Cicero
Answer: A
70. “Onomatopoeia” refers to:
A. Sound-imitating words
B. Rhyme scheme
C. Figurative irony
D. Long vowel pattern
Answer: A
71. “Magic Realism” blends:
A. Fantasy + mythology
B. Realism + supernatural
C. Satire + comedy
D. Allegory + tragedy
Answer: B
72. “Figurative meaning” contrasts with:
A. Symbolic
B. Literal
C. Narrative
D. Critical
Answer: B
73. The “Epiphany” technique was made famous by:
A. Joyce
B. Woolf
C. Hardy
D. Eliot
Answer: A
74. “Morpheme” is:
A. Sound unit
B. Meaning unit
C. Letter unit
D. Dialogue unit
Answer: B
75. The “Tone” of a text is the author’s:
A. Plotline
B. Attitude
C. Instrument
D. Theme
Answer: B
76. “Syntax errors” occur in:
A. Pronunciation
B. Spelling
C. Sentence formation
D. Meaning
Answer: C
77. “Synecdoche” is:
A. Opposite ideas
B. Whole for part / part for whole
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole
Answer: B
78. Which is a “closed class” of words?
A. Nouns
B. Adjectives
C. Verbs
D. Prepositions
Answer: D
79. A “foil character” serves to:
A. Cause conflict
B. Highlight main character
C. Provide humor
D. Slow the plot
Answer: B
80. “Semantics” deals with:
A. Sound
B. Form
C. Meaning
D. Script
Answer: C
81. The “Heroic Couplet” contains:
A. Four lines
B. Ten syllables
C. Two rhymed pentameter lines
D. Three rhymed lines
Answer: C
82. “End-stopped line” means:
A. No pause
B. Pause at line end
C. Stress shift
D. Weak ending
Answer: B
83. Most linguistic theories originated in:
A. Physics
B. Philosophy
C. Anthropology
D. Psychology
Answer: B
84. A “climax” is:
A. Introduction
B. Turning point
C. Ending
D. Side story
Answer: B
85. A “subplot” is:
A. Main plot
B. Secondary plot
C. Symbolic plot
D. Parallel timeline
Answer: B
86. “Elliptical narration” uses:
A. Over-description
B. Omission
C. Dialogue only
D. No plot
Answer: B
87. “Polysyllabic” means:
A. One syllable
B. Two syllables
C. Many syllables
D. Stress shift
Answer: C
88. The term “Parody” means:
A. Musical imitation
B. Humor through imitation
C. Religious ritual
D. Dramatic chorus
Answer: B
89. “Denotation” is:
A. Emotional meaning
B. Literal meaning
C. Symbolic meaning
D. Contextual meaning
Answer: B
90. “Satire” aims to:
A. Praise
B. Criticize
C. Confuse
D. Inform
Answer: B
91. A “dialogic novel” was introduced by:
A. Bakhtin
B. Barthes
C. Foucault
D. Eliot
Answer: A
92. A “motif” is:
A. Character flaw
B. Repeated element
C. Rising action
D. Secondary conflict
Answer: B
93. “Onset” in syllable structure is:
A. Vowel
B. Consonant(s) before nucleus
C. Stress
D. Tone
Answer: B
94. “Hypotaxis” involves:
A. Coordination
B. Subordination
C. Alliteration
D. Stress
Answer: B
95. “Foreshadowing” means:
A. Revealing ending
B. Hinting future events
C. Creating humor
D. Adding symbols
Answer: B
96. “Novel of manners” analyzes:
A. Ghosts
B. Social customs
C. Prison life
D. War
Answer: B
97. “Jacobean drama” is known for:
A. Moral tales
B. Revenge tragedies
C. Romantic comedies
D. Mystical epics
Answer: B
98. “Idiolect” means:
A. Group language
B. Individual speech pattern
C. Colony dialect
D. A simplified language
Answer: B
99. “Semivowels” include:
A. w, y
B. p, t
C. m, n
D. s, z
Answer: A
100. “Symbolism” emphasizes:
A. Real-life detail
B. Direct meaning
C. Suggestive imagery
D. Oral tradition
Answer: C
101. “Langue” refers to:
A. Individual speech act
B. System of language
C. Written script
D. Borrowed words
Answer: B
102. The smallest meaningful unit of language is:
A. Phoneme
B. Morpheme
C. Syllable
D. Clause
Answer: B
103. “Run-on line” in poetry is also called:
A. Caesura
B. Volta
C. Enjambment
D. Elision
Answer: C
104. Postmodern literature frequently uses:
A. Strict realism
B. Pastiche
C. Classical unities
D. Epic conventions
Answer: B
105. “Illocutionary act” refers to:
A. Literal speech
B. Intended meaning
C. Emotional effect
D. Future action
Answer: B
106. Which is a feature of Metaphysical poetry?
A. Pastoral themes
B. Conceits
C. Epic similes
D. Dramatic irony
Answer: B
107. Saussure’s “Sign” consists of:
A. Meaning only
B. Sound only
C. Signifier + Signified
D. Grammar & Syntax
Answer: C
108. The “Affective Filter” is associated with:
A. Bloomfield
B. Krashen
C. Halliday
D. Jakobson
Answer: B
109. “Spondee” consists of:
A. Two stressed syllables
B. Two unstressed syllables
C. Stressed + unstressed
D. Unstressed + stressed
Answer: A
110. “Syntax” determines:
A. Word origin
B. Word order
C. Word stress
D. Word meaning
Answer: B
111. “Pathetic fallacy” is a device that gives:
A. Human traits to nature
B. Animal traits to humans
C. Neutral traits to objects
D. Mechanical traits to humans
Answer: A
112. “Mimesis” means:
A. Criticism
B. Imitation
C. Creation
D. Translation
Answer: B
113. A short, witty poem with a twist is:
A. Ode
B. Epic
C. Epigram
D. Ballad
Answer: C
114. “Semantic field” refers to:
A. Historical language
B. A group of related meanings
C. Lexical borrowing
D. Structural rules
Answer: B
115. Who developed “Transformational Grammar”?
A. Saussure
B. Chomsky
C. Sapir
D. Halliday
Answer: B
116. An “aside” is spoken:
A. To all characters
B. Only to audience
C. To one character
D. As a monologue
Answer: B
117. “Magical Realism” originated in:
A. Asia
B. Africa
C. Latin America
D. Europe
Answer: C
118. “Oxymoron” combines:
A. Similar words
B. Opposite terms
C. New words
D. Repeated sounds
Answer: B
119. A “foil character” serves to:
A. Oppose theme
B. Contrast protagonist
C. Resolve conflict
D. Create humor
Answer: B
120. “Etymology” is the study of:
A. Syntax
B. Word origin
C. Speech acts
D. Semantics
Answer: B
121. The father of modern structural linguistics
is:
A. Skinner
B. Saussure
C. Chomsky
D. Aristotle
Answer: B
122. “Hubris” refers to:
A. Wisdom
B. Excessive pride
C. Fate
D. Destiny
Answer: B
123. The “chorus” in Greek drama served as:
A. Comic relief
B. Moral commentator
C. Main antagonist
D. Stage manager
Answer: B
124. A “syllable” consists of:
A. Onset + Nucleus + Coda
B. Signifier + Signified
C. Clause + Phrase
D. Root + Affix
Answer: A
125. “Interlanguage” refers to:
A. Code-mixed language
B. A learner’s developing language
C. Mother tongue
D. Target language
Answer: B
126. A novel focusing on psychological depth is:
A. Gothic
B. Psychological novel
C. Picaresque
D. Epistolary
Answer: B
127. “Dialectics” refers to:
A. Sound shift
B. Logical argument
C. Folk speech
D. Idiomatic usage
Answer: B
128. Which literary device addresses an absent
person?
A. Apostrophe
B. Metonymy
C. Hyperbole
D. Allusion
Answer: A
129. “Sonnet” originally comes from:
A. England
B. France
C. Italy
D. Germany
Answer: C
130. The “frame narrative” contains:
A. Flashbacks
B. Story within a story
C. One narrator
D. One setting
Answer: B
131. “Prosody” deals with:
A. Grammar
B. Meter & rhythm
C. Semantics
D. Dialects
Answer: B
132. “Creole” is:
A. Fully developed language from a pidgin
B. Broken English
C. Tribal language
D. Artificial language
Answer: A
133. A “nonce word” is:
A. Borrowed
B. Invented for one occasion
C. Archaic
D. Dialectal
Answer: B
134. “Heteroglossia” is a term by:
A. Freud
B. Bakhtin
C. Lacan
D. Derrida
Answer: B
135. “Free Verse” was popularized by:
A. Wordsworth
B. Milton
C. Whitman
D. Pope
Answer: C
136. “Minimal pairs” help identify:
A. Allophones
B. Morphemes
C. Phonemes
D. Syllables
Answer: C
137. A “motif” is:
A. Main theme
B. Repeating symbol
C. Plot twist
D. Climax
Answer: B
138. “Discourse” refers to:
A. Sentence
B. Paragraph
C. Extended stretch of language
D. Word
Answer: C
139. A “quatrain” has:
A. 2 lines
B. 3 lines
C. 4 lines
D. 8 lines
Answer: C
140. “Code-switching” occurs when speakers
alternate between:
A. Registers
B. Dialects
C. Two languages
D. Two sentences
Answer: C
141. “Metalepsis” is:
A. Repeating vowel
B. Distant metaphor
C. Swapping grammar
D. Over-arching story
Answer: B
142. The “in medias res” technique means:
A. Starting at end
B. Starting in middle
C. Starting with prophecy
D. Starting with theme
Answer: B
143. “Ideal reader” is a concept associated with:
A. Eco
B. Barthes
C. Fish
D. Jauss
Answer: A
144. “Synecdoche” involves:
A. Mixed metaphors
B. Part-whole substitution
C. Strong imagery
D. Reversed chronology
Answer: B
145. “Litotes” expresses:
A. Exaggeration
B. Understatement
C. Opposition
D. Symbolism
Answer: B
146. “Morpheme” belongs to:
A. Syntax
B. Morphology
C. Semantics
D. Discourse analysis
Answer: B
147. The “tetrameter” line has:
A. 2 feet
B. 3 feet
C. 4 feet
D. 5 feet
Answer: C
148. “Polysyndeton” uses:
A. Excess conjunctions
B. Few conjunctions
C. Semantic fields
D. Meter variation
Answer: A
149. “Syntax trees” are used in:
A. Pragmatics
B. Semantics
C. Generative grammar
D. Old English studies
Answer: C
150. “Limerick” is a:
A. Free verse
B. Five-line comic poem
C. Heroic couplet
D. Blank verse
Answer: B
151. “Epistrophe” refers to:
A. Repetition at the beginning
B. Repetition at the end of lines
C. Breaking syntax
D. Doubling of vowels
Answer: B
152. “Semantic ambiguity” arises when a word:
A. Has only one meaning
B. Has two or more meanings
C. Is grammatically incorrect
D. Is culturally foreign
Answer: B
153. “Affix” refers to:
A. Root word
B. Prefix or suffix
C. Vowel sound
D. Clause
Answer: B
154. “Volta” in a sonnet appears usually at:
A. Line 4
B. Line 8 or 9
C. Line 12
D. Line 14
Answer: B
155. “Periphrasis” means:
A. Overly long expression
B. Short-cut expression
C. Metaphorical symbolism
D. Phonetic shift
Answer: A
156. “Clipping” is a process of:
A. Changing meaning
B. Shortening words
C. Borrowing words
D. Deleting phonemes
Answer: B
157. “Diglossia” refers to:
A. Language with no grammar
B. Two varieties of a language used for different purposes
C. Two families of languages
D. Verb-less language
Answer: B
158. “Semantic roles” include:
A. Adjective, verb, adverb
B. Agent, theme, experiencer
C. Prefix, suffix, infix
D. Subject, object, complement
Answer: B
159. “Character foil” means:
A. Opponent
B. Contrast character
C. Imaginary friend
D. Narrator’s assistant
Answer: B
160. “Quantifiers” are used to indicate:
A. Tense
B. Number or amount
C. Voice
D. Gender
Answer: B
161. “Iconic sign” resembles:
A. Nothing
B. Abstract idea
C. What it represents
D. Opposite image
Answer: C
162. “Stanza” is a:
A. Short story
B. Group of lines in a poem
C. Drama sequence
D. Musical phrase
Answer: B
163. “Polysemy” refers to:
A. Borrowed meaning
B. One word with several related meanings
C. Wrong grammar
D. Two words with opposite meaning
Answer: B
164. “Metonymy” replaces:
A. Part for whole
B. Whole for part
C. One name for related concept
D. Contrast meaning
Answer: C
165. “Synecdoche” is:
A. Whole for part
B. Part for whole
C. Both A & B
D. None
Answer: C
166. “Paralanguage” includes:
A. Syntax
B. Body language, tone, pitch
C. Spellings
D. Literary devices
Answer: B
167. “Genre” means:
A. Setting
B. Type of literature
C. Character traits
D. Narrative voice
Answer: B
168. “Tautology” refers to:
A. Repetition of meaning
B. Repetition of sound
C. Repetition of action
D. Repetition of plot
Answer: A
169. When children discover grammar rules
unconsciously, it is:
A. Behaviorism
B. Acquisition
C. Learning
D. Drilling
Answer: B
170. “Pidginization” occurs when:
A. Languages die
B. Two groups need simple language for communication
C. Learning stops
D. Dialects mix completely
Answer: B
171. “Endophora” refers to:
A. Referring outside the text
B. Referring inside the text
C. Referring to author’s life
D. Referring to future events
Answer: B
172. “Euphemism” means:
A. Harsh expression
B. Mild expression for harsh reality
C. Simile
D. Extended metaphor
Answer: B
173. “Narrative voice” indicates:
A. Character name
B. Speaker in a story
C. Tone of author
D. Historical context
Answer: B
174. “Foot” in poetry is:
A. Rhyme
B. Metrical unit
C. Stanza
D. Line
Answer: B
175. “Assimilation” in phonology means:
A. Words merging
B. Sounds becoming similar
C. Sentences joining
D. Morphemes deleting
Answer: B
176. “Elision” is:
A. Addition of sounds
B. Omission of sounds
C. Stress shift
D. Tone marking
Answer: B
177. “Genre theory” was developed by:
A. Derrida
B. Aristotle
C. Frye
D. Saussure
Answer: C
178. A novel focusing on society and class is:
A. Mystery
B. Romance
C. Novel of manners
D. Gothic
Answer: C
179. “Illusion vs. Reality” is a common:
A. Plot
B. Setting
C. Symbol
D. Theme
Answer: D
180. “Infix” is a morpheme placed:
A. At beginning
B. At end
C. Inside a word
D. After verb
Answer: C
181. “Borrowing” adds words from:
A. Mathematics
B. Other languages
C. Literature
D. Technology
Answer: B
182. “Politeness theory” was proposed by:
A. Lakoff
B. Brown & Levinson
C. Hymes
D. Firth
Answer: B
183. Which type of novel uses letters as structure?
A. Picaresque
B. Epistolary
C. Historical
D. Allegorical
Answer: B
184. “Exposition” in drama introduces:
A. Rising action
B. Background information
C. Climax
D. Resolution
Answer: B
185. “Foil” means a character who:
A. Fights
B. Supports
C. Contrasts
D. Narrates
Answer: C
186. “Back-formation” creates words by:
A. Adding suffix
B. Removing suffix
C. Shortening vowels
D. Changing stress
Answer: B
187. “Mood” in grammar expresses:
A. Speaker attitude
B. Time of verb
C. Gender
D. Number
Answer: A
188. The “chorus” originates in:
A. Roman comedy
B. Greek drama
C. Medieval morality
D. Renaissance tragedy
Answer: B
189. “Denotation” means:
A. Dictionary meaning
B. Implied meaning
C. Secondary meaning
D. Poetic meaning
Answer: A
190. A “semantic anomaly” is:
A. Grammatical
B. Meaningless statement
C. Perfect rhyme
D. Past tense
Answer: B
191. “Soliloquy” reveals:
A. Dialogue
B. Inner thoughts
C. Conflicts
D. Stage direction
Answer: B
192. “Deixis” refers to words needing:
A. Phonemes
B. Stress
C. Context
D. Alliteration
Answer: C
193. “Hyperbole” is:
A. Understatement
B. Exaggeration
C. Repetition
D. Silence
Answer: B
194. A “novella” is:
A. Long novel
B. Poem
C. Short novel
D. Fable
Answer: C
195. “Irony” creates:
A. Exact meanings
B. Opposite meanings
C. Repetitive meanings
D. No meaning
Answer: B
196. Narrator who misleads reader is:
A. Omniscient
B. Intrusive
C. Unreliable
D. Self-conscious
Answer: C
197. “Pragmatics” studies:
A. Contextual meaning
B. Stress
C. Syntax
D. Sound
Answer: A
198. “Consonant cluster” means:
A. Two vowels
B. Two or more consonants together
C. Two morphemes
D. Two clauses
Answer: B
199. “Interrogative sentence” ends with:
A. Period
B. Exclamation
C. Question mark
D. Dash
Answer: C
200. “Narrator vs. Author” belongs to:
A. Structuralism
B. Romanticism
C. Marxism
D. Psychoanalysis
Answer: A
201. “Caesura” in poetry means:
A. A rhyme
B. A pause within a line
C. A repeated stanza
D. A metaphor
Answer: B
202. “Allophone” refers to:
A. A grammatical marker
B. Variations of a phoneme
C. A tense marker
D. A vowel sequence
Answer: B
203. “Feminine ending” in poetry means the line
ends with:
A. Stressed syllable
B. Unstressed syllable
C. Trochee
D. Spondee
Answer: B
204. A “bildungsroman” is:
A. Detective novel
B. Coming-of-age novel
C. Religious narrative
D. Utopian fiction
Answer: B
205. “Grapheme” is a unit of:
A. Sound
B. Meaning
C. Writing
D. Grammar
Answer: C
206. “Parallelism” in literature is:
A. Grammatical inconsistency
B. Similar structure repeated
C. Harsh imagery
D. Figurative inversion
Answer: B
207. “Ambiguity” suggests:
A. One meaning
B. Multiple meanings
C. No meaning
D. Wrong meaning
Answer: B
208. Character who narrates events without full
knowledge is:
A. Third-person narrator
B. Limited narrator
C. Dramatic narrator
D. Passive narrator
Answer: B
209. “Semantic field” refers to:
A. Grammar rules
B. Set of related meanings
C. Narrator’s world
D. Linguistic geography
Answer: B
210. “Spondee” is a foot with:
A. Two unstressed syllables
B. One stressed and one unstressed
C. Two stressed syllables
D. No stress pattern
Answer: C
211. The term “intertextuality” was introduced by:
A. Roland Barthes
B. Julia Kristeva
C. Derrida
D. Genette
Answer: B
212. “Anaphora” is:
A. Repetition at the beginning
B. Repetition at the end
C. Sudden change in tone
D. Dramatic exaggeration
Answer: A
213. “Morphology” deals with:
A. Sound patterns
B. Sentence arrangements
C. Word formation
D. Semantics
Answer: C
214. A “catharsis” in tragedy means:
A. Comic relief
B. Emotional cleansing
C. Dramatic irony
D. Visual climax
Answer: B
215. “Dialect” is a variation in:
A. Meaning
B. Sound, vocabulary, grammar
C. Rhythm
D. Plot
Answer: B
216. “Affective fallacy” was proposed by:
A. Wimsatt & Beardsley
B. Richards
C. Eliot
D. Frye
Answer: A
217. “Trochee” is a foot pattern of:
A. Unstressed–stressed
B. Stressed–unstressed
C. Two stresses
D. No stress
Answer: B
218. “Denouement” is:
A. Conflict beginning
B. Climax
C. Falling action / resolution
D. Dramatic monologue
Answer: C
219. Words like click, buzz, whirr
are examples of:
A. Metaphor
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Synecdoche
D. Irony
Answer: B
220. “Code-switching” occurs when:
A. Script changes
B. One shifts between languages
C. Grammar shifts
D. Meaning shifts
Answer: B
221. A “nonce-word” is:
A. Newly coined temporarily
B. Borrowed from another language
C. Unacceptable form
D. A literary device
Answer: A
222. “Chiasmus” is:
A. ABBA structure
B. ABAB structure
C. AABB structure
D. AAAA structure
Answer: A
223. “Binary opposition” is central to:
A. Formalism
B. Structuralism
C. Feminism
D. Ecocriticism
Answer: B
224. “Allusion” means:
A. Literal reference
B. Indirect reference
C. Wrong reference
D. Direct quote
Answer: B
225. “iambic pentameter” contains:
A. 5 stressed syllables
B. 10 syllables: unstressed–stressed repeated
C. 8 stressed syllables
D. 6 feet
Answer: B
226. “Epigram” means:
A. Long witty paragraph
B. Short witty saying
C. Poetic narration
D. Complex metaphor
Answer: B
227. “Tone” refers to:
A. Plot arrangement
B. Attitude of speaker
C. Setting
D. Character role
Answer: B
228. “Satire” aims at:
A. Romantic beauty
B. Social criticism through humor
C. Heroic elevation
D. Abstract reflection
Answer: B
229. “Langue and parole” were proposed by:
A. Bloom
B. Saussure
C. Jakobson
D. Peirce
Answer: B
230. “Hyperbaton” refers to:
A. Normal word order
B. Inverted word order
C. Broken rhyme scheme
D. Excessive stress
Answer: B
231. A “conceit” is:
A. Simple metaphor
B. Extended metaphor with far-fetched comparison
C. Literal meaning
D. Dramatic entry
Answer: B
232. “Pidgin” becomes a natural language when it
becomes:
A. Hybrid
B. Creole
C. Borrowed
D. Inflected
Answer: B
233. A “slant rhyme” is:
A. Perfect rhyme
B. Near / imperfect rhyme
C. Internal rhyme
D. Silent rhyme
Answer: B
234. “Homonym” refers to words that:
A. Sound same, different meaning
B. Look same, different meaning
C. Opposites
D. Rhyming pairs
Answer: B
(Note: Homophones = sound same)
235. “Impressionism” in literature focuses on:
A. Scientific objectivity
B. Reader’s feelings
C. Author’s sensory impressions
D. Structural patterns
Answer: C
236. “Sibilance” is repetition of:
A. R sounds
B. L sounds
C. S or sh sounds
D. Vowel sounds
Answer: C
237. “Verisimilitude” is:
A. Realism / truth-likeness
B. Fantasy
C. Symbolism
D. Rhyme pattern
Answer: A
238. A “motif” is:
A. Main theme
B. Recurrent symbol or idea
C. Conflict
D. Climax
Answer: B
239. “Inversion” in syntax means:
A. Subject–verb order
B. Reversing normal word order
C. Adding new verbs
D. Reducing clauses
Answer: B
240. “Semantic bleaching” occurs when:
A. Meaning strengthens
B. Meaning weakens
C. Sound changes
D. Grammar shifts
Answer: B
241. A “minimal pair” shows:
A. Same meaning
B. Different meaning & 1 phoneme difference
C. Similar grammar
D. No contrast
Answer: B
242. “Malapropism” means:
A. Correct word usage
B. Accidentally wrong word usage
C. New word formation
D. Proper noun shift
Answer: B
243. “Canon” means:
A. Forbidden books
B. Officially accepted literary works
C. Recently written works
D. Only religious texts
Answer: B
244. “Stichomythia” is:
A. Long monologue
B. Rapid exchange of short lines
C. Comic interlude
D. Dramatic pause
Answer: B
245. “Palimpsest” refers to:
A. Erased and rewritten manuscript
B. Glossary
C. Index
D. Footnote
Answer: A
246. “Phonotactics” study:
A. Allowed sound combinations
B. Grammar rules
C. Word formation
D. Language change
Answer: A
247. “Metaphysical poetry” is known for:
A. Romantic description
B. Concise imagery
C. Wit, conceits, intellectual paradox
D. Simple language
Answer: C
248. “Climax” in rhetoric refers to:
A. Lowest point
B. Gradual rise to importance
C. Repetition
D. Sound pattern
Answer: B
249. “Performativity” is linked with:
A. Judith Butler
B. Foucault
C. Derrida
D. Habermas
Answer: A
250. “Oxymoron” means:
A. Extended metaphor
B. Juxtaposition of opposite terms
C. Repetitive rhyme
D. Figurative comparison
Answer: B
251. The term “quatrain” refers to:
A. A stanza of two lines
B. A stanza of three lines
C. A stanza of four lines
D. A stanza of six lines
Answer: C
Four-line stanza.
252. “Eye rhyme” refers to:
A. Words that sound alike
B. Words that look alike but don’t rhyme
C. Words that rhyme internally
D. Words repeated in chorus
Answer: B
Example: love / move.
253. “Euphemism” means:
A. Direct harsh expression
B. Mild or indirect expression
C. Symbolic exaggeration
D. Dramatic reversal
Answer: B
254. A “dramatic monologue” is:
A. Conversation between actors
B. Long speech by one character to a silent listener
C. A comic speech
D. Narrative description
Answer: B
255. “Colloquialism” refers to:
A. High poetic diction
B. Informal everyday speech
C. Religious terms
D. Scientific vocabulary
Answer: B
256. “Anapest” is a foot with:
A. Stressed–stressed
B. Unstressed–stressed
C. Unstressed–unstressed–stressed
D. Stressed–unstressed–unstressed
Answer: C
257. “Protagonist” is:
A. Opposing force
B. Main character
C. Narrator
D. Comic relief
Answer: B
258. “Synecdoche” means:
A. Part for whole
B. Whole for part
C. Both A and B
D. Opposite meaning
Answer: C
259. “Diction” refers to:
A. Sentence order
B. Word choice
C. Theme
D. Conflict
Answer: B
260. “Heteroglossia” is a concept by:
A. Roland Barthes
B. Bakhtin
C. Derrida
D. Bhabha
Answer: B
261. “Paradox” means:
A. Truthful statement
B. Self-contradictory but revealing truth
C. Simple truth
D. Direct metaphor
Answer: B
262. In phonology, “aspiration” refers to:
A. Vowel length
B. Breath released with consonant
C. Voicing
D. Syllable stress
Answer: B
263. “Genre” means:
A. Tone
B. Literary category
C. Point of view
D. Lyric structure
Answer: B
264. “Telegraphic sentence” is:
A. Long detailed sentence
B. Very short sentence
C. Interrogative sentence
D. Indirect sentence
Answer: B
265. “Bathos” refers to:
A. Elevated style
B. Anti-climactic fall from sublime to trivial
C. Suspense
D. Epic style
Answer: B
266. A “foil” in drama is:
A. Narrator
B. Character who contrasts main character
C. Comic villain
D. Chorus member
Answer: B
267. “Mimesis” according to Aristotle means:
A. Tragedy
B. Imitation
C. Emotion
D. Catharsis
Answer: B
268. “Stress-timed language” refers to:
A. All syllables equal
B. Stress at regular intervals
C. Only vowels stressed
D. No rhythm
Answer: B
269. English is classified as:
A. Syllable-timed
B. Stress-timed
C. Mora-timed
D. Tone-timed
Answer: B
270. “Zeugma” means:
A. One word applied to two others
B. Repetition
C. Comparison
D. Personification
Answer: A
Example: He stole my heart and my wallet.
271. “Phatic communication” means:
A. Exchanging facts
B. Social small talk
C. Scientific talk
D. Lying
Answer: B
272. “Villanelle” consists of:
A. 10 lines
B. 14 lines
C. 19 lines
D. 7 lines
Answer: C
273. “Ellipsis” refers to:
A. Line break
B. Omission of words
C. Rhythmic pause
D. Change of narrator
Answer: B
274. “Hamartia” means:
A. Hero’s tragic flaw
B. Hero’s triumph
C. Comic error
D. Divine justice
Answer: A
275. “Dramatic irony” occurs when:
A. Characters know everything
B. Audience knows more than characters
C. Narrator is unreliable
D. Ending is abrupt
Answer: B
276. “Cognates” are words that:
A. Have no connection
B. Are identical in all languages
C. Share a common origin
D. Are borrowed
Answer: C
277. “Choric commentary” is found in:
A. Novels
B. Short stories
C. Greek drama
D. Lyrics
Answer: C
278. “Pathetic fallacy” means:
A. Personifying nature to reflect emotion
B. Imitating heroism
C. Using memory
D. Breaking rhythm
Answer: A
279. “Phoneme” is:
A. Smallest unit of meaning
B. Smallest unit of grammar
C. Smallest unit of sound
D. Smallest unit of syntax
Answer: C
280. A “treatise” is:
A. Humorous poem
B. Short lyrical essay
C. Systematic written argument
D. Dramatic scene
Answer: C
281. “Renaissance” literally means:
A. Reformation
B. Rebirth
C. Rewriting
D. Renewal of monarchy
Answer: B
282. “Dead metaphor” is:
A. Too complex
B. Overused and no longer vivid
C. Impossible to understand
D. Reverse in meaning
Answer: B
283. “Catholicity” in criticism means:
A. Narrow view
B. Broad, universal application
C. Sectarian approach
D. Religious interpretation
Answer: B
284. “Polysyndeton” refers to:
A. Omitting conjunctions
B. Using excessive conjunctions
C. Removing punctuation
D. Breaking grammar
Answer: B
285. “Psychoanalytic criticism” derives from:
A. Jung and Lacan
B. Freud
C. Both A and B
D. Skinner
Answer: C
286. “Denotation” means:
A. Implied meaning
B. Dictionary meaning
C. Symbolic meaning
D. Emotional meaning
Answer: B
287. A “jeremiad” is:
A. Joyful poem
B. Lament and moral warning
C. Comic story
D. Allegorical romance
Answer: B
288. “Assonance” is:
A. Repetition of vowel sounds
B. Repetition of consonants
C. Rhyming lines
D. Dialogue repetition
Answer: A
289. “Gothic fiction” typically includes:
A. Romance only
B. Religious themes
C. Mystery, horror, supernatural
D. Comedy
Answer: C
290. “Narrative reliability” means:
A. How humorous narrator is
B. Unity of action
C. Trustworthiness of narrator
D. Length of story
Answer: C
291. “Pastoral poetry” idealizes:
A. City life
B. Rural, shepherd life
C. Sea voyages
D. Politics
Answer: B
292. “Anthropomorphism” means:
A. Giving human traits to animals/objects
B. Giving animal traits to humans
C. Eliminating metaphors
D. Rhyming scheme
Answer: A
293. “Soliloquy” is:
A. Speaker alone revealing thoughts
B. Conversation
C. Narrator’s summary
D. Chorus speaking
Answer: A
294. “Nonce borrowing” refers to:
A. Borrowed permanently
B. Borrowed temporarily for one occasion
C. Borrowed historically
D. Borrowed incorrectly
Answer: B
295. “Chant royal” belongs to:
A. Epic
B. Lyric poetry
C. Romance
D. Drama
Answer: B
296. In linguistics, “assimilation” means:
A. Removing sounds
B. One sound becoming like another
C. Adding stress
D. Changing vowels randomly
Answer: B
297. “Hubris” means:
A. Excessive pride
B. Excessive sorrow
C. Courage
D. Love
Answer: A
298. “Fabliau” is:
A. Short comic, coarse French tale
B. Long Italian romance
C. Greek philosophical text
D. Medieval sermon
Answer: A
299. “Connotation” refers to:
A. Dictionary meaning
B. Implied emotional meaning
C. Literal translation
D. Technical meaning
Answer: B
300. “Anagnorisis” in tragedy means:
A. Death of hero
B. Recognition or discovery
C. Reversal
D. Lament
Answer: B
301. “Syntax” studies:
A. Word origins
B. Sentence structure
C. Figurative meaning
D. Rhythm
Answer: B
302. “Understatement” is
also called:
A. Litotes
B. Hyperbole
C. Synecdoche
D. Allegory
Answer: A
303. “Free indirect
discourse” blends:
A. First person + direct speech
B. Third person + character’s thoughts
C. Dialogue + narration
D. Past + future
Answer: B
304. “Etymology” refers to:
A. Study of sounds
B. Study of meaning
C. Study of word origins
D. Study of syntax
Answer: C
305. “Deconstruction” was
founded by:
A. Derrida
B. Barthes
C. Foucault
D. Lacan
Answer: A
306. “Metaphor” is a:
A. Direct comparison using “like”
B. Indirect symbolic comparison
C. Repetition of sounds
D. Personification
Answer: B
307. “Euphony” means:
A. Harsh sounds
B. Pleasant, smooth sounds
C. Loud sounds
D. Unrhymed sounds
Answer: B
308. “Polysyllabic” means:
A. One syllable
B. Two syllables
C. More than two syllables
D. No syllables
Answer: C
309. “Trope” is a term for:
A. Plot twist
B. Figurative device
C. Meter
D. Genre
Answer: B
310. A “subplot” is:
A. Central storyline
B. Secondary storyline
C. Beginning of plot
D. Climax
Answer: B
311. “Semantics” concerns:
A. Meaning
B. Syntax
C. Sound
D. Morphology
Answer: A
312. “Iamb” is a foot of:
A. Stressed–unstressed
B. Unstressed–stressed
C. Two stressed
D. Two unstressed
Answer: B
313. A “conceit” is:
A. Simple metaphor
B. Extended complex metaphor
C. Simile
D. Onomatopoeia
Answer: B
314. “Interrogative”
sentence expresses:
A. Command
B. Emotion
C. Question
D. Statement
Answer: C
315. “Comic relief” appears
usually in:
A. Epic
B. Tragedy
C. Romance
D. Essay
Answer: B
316. “Dialect atlas”
records:
A. Vocabulary
B. Grammar
C. Speech varieties geographically
D. Literary forms
Answer: C
317. “Volition” in grammar
expresses:
A. Request
B. Command or will
C. Past time
D. Degree
Answer: B
318. “Aporia” is:
A. Doubt or confusion in text
B. Dramatic irony
C. Climax
D. Imagery
Answer: A
319. “Morpheme” includes:
A. Only roots
B. Only affixes
C. Roots + affixes
D. Only verbs
Answer: C
320. “Archaism” refers to:
A. Newly coined word
B. Old-fashioned word
C. Borrowed word
D. Incorrect word
Answer: B
321. The term “heteronym”
refers to:
A. Words with same spelling, different pronunciation & meaning
B. Words with same sound, different spelling
C. Words with opposite meanings
D. Words with similar meaning
Answer: A
322. “Onomatopoeia” means:
A. Words that imitate sounds
B. Words that describe color
C. Words that rhyme
D. Words with no meaning
Answer: A
323. “Autobiography” is
written in:
A. Third person
B. Second person
C. First person
D. Multiple voices
Answer: C
324. “Stichomythia” is:
A. Long monologue
B. Rapid short-line dialogue
C. Narrative commentary
D. Rhyme pattern
Answer: B
325. “Epilogue” appears at:
A. Start
B. Middle
C. End
D. Exposition
Answer: C
326. “Portmanteau word” is:
A. Blend of two words
B. Old word
C. Borrowed word
D. Incorrect form
Answer: A
327. “Sestet” contains:
A. 4 lines
B. 6 lines
C. 8 lines
D. 14 lines
Answer: B
328. “Denotation” contrasts
with:
A. Connotation
B. Syntax
C. Semantics
D. Symbolism
Answer: A
329. “Pastiche” means:
A. Serious parody
B. Humorous imitation
C. Copying style of another author
D. Dramatic irony
Answer: C
330. “Free verse” avoids:
A. Imagery
B. Rhythm
C. Fixed meter and rhyme
D. Alliteration
Answer: C
331. “Polyphony” in a novel
refers to:
A. Single voice
B. Multiple voices
C. Multiple endings
D. Vocal recording
Answer: B
332. “Register” in
linguistics refers to:
A. Regional variety
B. Situational language variety
C. National variety
D. Literary dialect
Answer: B
333. “Metalepsis” is:
A. Mixed metaphor
B. Distant, layered metaphor
C. Literal statement
D. Sudden plot twist
Answer: B
334. “Syntax tree” is used
in:
A. Structuralism
B. Generative grammar
C. Postcolonialism
D. Romanticism
Answer: B
335. “Acronym” is:
A. Word formed from initials
B. Word borrowed
C. Old term
D. Incorrect usage
Answer: A
336. “Jargon” means:
A. Storytelling language
B. Highly technical vocabulary
C. Formal writing
D. Dialect
Answer: B
337. “Hapax legomenon”
refers to:
A. A frequently used word
B. A word occurring only once
C. Newly coined word
D. Incorrect word
Answer: B
338. “Zeugma” means:
A. One verb applied to two ideas
B. Two verbs applied to one idea
C. Repeated exact phrase
D. Sound symbolism
Answer: A
339. “Foreshadowing” gives:
A. Direct hints of future events
B. Summary
C. Climax
D. Moral lesson
Answer: A
340. “Semantic shift” means:
A. Sound change
B. Meaning change over time
C. Spelling change
D. Grammar change
Answer: B
341. “Pentameter” line has:
A. 3 feet
B. 4 feet
C. 5 feet
D. 6 feet
Answer: C
342. “Phonotactics” studies:
A. Allowed sound combinations
B. Sentence types
C. Word borrowing
D. Semantic fields
Answer: A
343. “Metonymy” is:
A. Comparison
B. Symbol
C. Related term replacing object
D. Part for whole
Answer: C
344. “Allegory” is:
A. Simple story
B. Story with hidden symbolic meaning
C. Scientific narrative
D. Realistic description
Answer: B
345. “Sibilance” is
repetition of:
A. R sounds
B. M sounds
C. S, sh, z sounds
D. Vowel sounds
Answer: C
346. “Performative
utterance” is a term of:
A. Derrida
B. Austin
C. Saussure
D. Foucault
Answer: B
347. “Frame narrative”
contains:
A. Subplot
B. Story within a story
C. Endnotes
D. Chronology
Answer: B
348. “Homophone” means words
that:
A. Look same
B. Sound same
C. Have opposite meaning
D. Are spelled differently
Answer: B
349. “Analepsis” means:
A. Flashforward
B. Flashback
C. Climax
D. Resolution
Answer: B
350. “Caesura” is a:
A. Break between stanzas
B. Pause within a metrical line
C. Ending rhyme
D. Alliterative phrase
Answer: B
351. “Phatic communication” focuses on:
A. Sharing facts
B. Maintaining social relationships
C. Giving instructions
D. Technical vocabulary
Answer: B
352. “Ode” belongs to the category of:
A. Lyric poetry
B. Satirical poetry
C. Epic poetry
D. Mock-heroic poetry
Answer: A
353. “Antithesis” means:
A. Harsh criticism
B. Opposition of ideas
C. Repetition of sounds
D. Sudden ending
Answer: B
354. Which term refers to “speech sounds written
down”?
A. Grapheme
B. Phoneme
C. Morpheme
D. Lexeme
Answer: A
355. “Eclogue” means:
A. Religious chant
B. Pastoral poem
C. War ballad
D. Tragic monologue
Answer: B
356. “Inflectional morphemes” indicate:
A. New words
B. Grammatical changes
C. Borrowed words
D. Rhymed syllables
Answer: B
357. “Choric commentary” is typical of:
A. Victorian novel
B. Greek tragedy
C. Postmodern novel
D. Gothic fiction
Answer: B
358. “Metatheatre” refers to:
A. Theatre about religion
B. Theatre referencing itself
C. Theatre of absurd
D. Theatre with flashbacks
Answer: B
359. “Lexicon” means:
A. Moral message
B. Dictionary of vocabulary
C. Poetic meter
D. Narrative pattern
Answer: B
360. “Semantic drift” refers to:
A. Sound weakening
B. Gradual change in meaning
C. Expansion of vocabulary
D. New spelling
Answer: B
361. “Ballad stanza” usually has:
A. 5 lines
B. 4 lines
C. 8 lines
D. 3 lines
Answer: B
362. “Frame narrative” contains:
A. One active story
B. Multiple stories inside one main story
C. No characters
D. Only monologues
Answer: B
363. “Morpheme” differs from “phoneme” because:
A. Morpheme gives meaning
B. Phoneme gives meaning
C. Both give meaning
D. Neither is meaningful
Answer: A
364. “Polyptoton” is repetition of:
A. Same word with grammatical variations
B. Same sound
C. Opposite words
D. Metaphorical images
Answer: A
Example: “love, loves, loving.”
365. “Lexical field” means:
A. Syntax set
B. Words connected by theme
C. Rhyme pattern
D. Structural scheme
Answer: B
366. “Aposiopesis” means:
A. Overstated ending
B. Sudden breaking off in speech
C. Whispered metaphor
D. Dramatic exaggeration
Answer: B
367. A “foil” character highlights:
A. Setting
B. Background
C. Main character through contrast
D. Plot weakness
Answer: C
368. “Tmesis” means:
A. Splitting a word with another word
B. Changing tone
C. Switching languages
D. Long digression
Answer: A
Example: “Abso-bloody-lutely!”
369. “Pentameter” refers to:
A. 3 feet
B. 4 feet
C. 5 feet
D. 6 feet
Answer: C
370. “Idiolect” is:
A. Group language
B. Personal language style
C. Technical dialect
D. Regional tone
Answer: B
371. “Fabula” in narratology refers to:
A. Polished plot
B. Raw chronological story
C. Final climax
D. Character description
Answer: B
372. “Syllogism” is:
A. Poetic device
B. Logical argument
C. Tragic flaw
D. Figurative speech
Answer: B
373. “Choric song” appears in:
A. Comedy of Manners
B. Greek tragedy
C. Jacobean drama
D. Morality plays
Answer: B
374. “Soliloquy” differs from “aside” because:
A. Aside is to audience; soliloquy is inner thoughts
B. Soliloquy is shorter
C. Aside is dramatic irony
D. Soliloquy only in comedies
Answer: A
375. “Interjection” expresses:
A. Time
B. Question
C. Sudden emotion
D. Number
Answer: C
376. “Oeuvre” refers to:
A. A poet’s long poem
B. Collective works of an author
C. Dramatic set
D. Grammar rules
Answer: B
377. “Back-formation” creates words by:
A. Adding affix
B. Removing affix
C. Borrowing
D. Clipping
Answer: B
378. “Caesura” functions as:
A. Slowing the rhythm
B. Increasing rhyme
C. Removing meaning
D. Shifting narrative
Answer: A
379. “Mnemonics” means:
A. Ethical code
B. Memory aids
C. Story repetitions
D. Dramatic pauses
Answer: B
380. The term “Prosody” refers to:
A. Grammar
B. Rhythm, meter, stress
C. Metaphors
D. Symbolism
Answer: B
381. “Invective” language is:
A. Mild praise
B. Abusive and harsh
C. Neutral commentary
D. Scientific explanation
Answer: B
382. “Asyndeton” means:
A. Removing conjunctions
B. Adding conjunctions
C. Repeating syntax
D. Repeating rhyme
Answer: A
383. “Ubi sunt” motif expresses:
A. Where are those who passed before us?
B. Divine prophecy
C. Heroic action
D. Satirical humor
Answer: A
384. “Climactic order” arranges ideas from:
A. Weak to strong
B. Strong to weak
C. Randomly
D. Chronologically
Answer: A
385. “Peroration” is the:
A. Introduction of speech
B. Middle section
C. Concluding section
D. Rhetorical question
Answer: C
386. “Künstlerroman” is a novel about:
A. Detective hero
B. Artist’s growth
C. War hero
D. Political agenda
Answer: B
387. “Audiobook” is an example of:
A. Paralanguage
B. Multimodal text
C. Metalepsis
D. Deixis
Answer: B
388. “Sibilance” creates:
A. Loud imagery
B. Hissing sound
C. Harsh tone
D. Silent pause
Answer: B
389. “Mimetic criticism” evaluates literature by:
A. Emotion
B. Author’s life
C. Mode of imitation
D. Reader response
Answer: C
390. A “heteronym” differs in:
A. Meaning only
B. Sound only
C. Spelling only
D. Both sound & meaning
Answer: D
391. “Elegy” traditionally expresses:
A. Humor
B. Patriotism
C. Lament
D. Satire
Answer: C
392. “Parable” teaches:
A. Historical facts
B. Moral lesson
C. Scientific truth
D. Poetic rhythm
Answer: B
393. “Dialectic method” uses:
A. Conflict of opposing ideas
B. Humor
C. Symbolism
D. Satire
Answer: A
394. “Temporal deixis” refers to:
A. Place words
B. Time words
C. Person words
D. Social markers
Answer: B
395. “Nonce formations” are:
A. Permanent borrowings
B. Temporary one-time words
C. Archaic words
D. Foreign words
Answer: B
396. “Portmanteau” word blends:
A. Two morphemes
B. Two separate words
C. Two clauses
D. Two settings
Answer: B
397. “Paronomasia” means:
A. Punning
B. Narrative irony
C. Poetic inversion
D. Logical fallacy
Answer: A
398. “Non-fictional prose” includes:
A. Novels
B. Essays
C. Sonnets
D. Ballads
Answer: B
399. “Catachresis” is:
A. Correct metaphor
B. Misused or strained metaphor
C. No metaphor
D. Minimal metaphor
Answer: B
400. “Paratext” includes:
A. Theme
B. Cover, preface, title page
C. Chapter titles only
D. Dialogues
Answer: B
401. “Epistolary narration”
uses:
A. Dream sequences
B. Letters and written documents
C. Verse paragraphs
D. Stage directions
Answer: B
402. “Anacoluthon” means:
A. Breaking grammatical structure mid-sentence
B. Regular poetic meter
C. Repeated metaphor
D. A type of rhyme
Answer: A
403. “Euphony” refers to:
A. Harsh consonants
B. Pleasant, smooth sounds
C. Rapid alliteration
D. Broken rhythm
Answer: B
404. “Roman à clef” is a
novel:
A. Based on myth
B. With a moral lesson
C. With real people disguised as fiction
D. Based on nature
Answer: C
405. “Solecism” refers to:
A. Logical fallacy
B. Grammatical mistake
C. Change in tone
D. Stress shift
Answer: B
406. “Ottava rima” stanza
has:
A. 4 lines
B. 6 lines
C. 8 lines
D. 10 lines
Answer: C
407. “Palilogy” is:
A. Repetition of words for emphasis
B. Repetition of sounds
C. Repetition of narrative
D. Repetition of themes
Answer: A
408. “Homodiegetic narrator”
is:
A. Outside story
B. Inside story as character
C. Non-human narrator
D. Multiple narrators
Answer: B
409. “Suspension of
disbelief” was proposed by:
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Eliot
D. Arnold
Answer: B
410. “Villanelle” ends with:
A. Rhymed couplet
B. Refrain line
C. Blank verse
D. Limerick
Answer: B
411. “Prosopopoeia” means:
A. Personification
B. Alliteration
C. Irony
D. Paradox
Answer: A
412. “Elision” refers to:
A. Omitting sounds
B. Adding sounds
C. Stress inversion
D. Strong ending
Answer: A
413. “Palindrome” is a
word/phrase that:
A. Means two things
B. Reads same forward and backward
C. Ends with stress
D. Contains all vowels
Answer: B
414. “Tercet” is a stanza
of:
A. 2 lines
B. 3 lines
C. 6 lines
D. 7 lines
Answer: B
415. “Subject–verb
inversion” is common in:
A. Interrogatives
B. Declaratives
C. Imperatives
D. Exclamations
Answer: A
416. “Metrical foot”
consists of:
A. A rhyme scheme
B. Unit of stressed/unstressed syllables
C. A stanza
D. A trope
Answer: B
417. “Comedy of Ideas” primarily
deals with:
A. Slapstick humor
B. Physical comedy
C. Intellectual debates
D. Absurd plot
Answer: C
418. “Semantic extension”
means:
A. Word meaning expands
B. Word meaning narrows
C. Word meaning dies
D. Word meaning reverses
Answer: A
419. “Syzygy” in poetry
refers to:
A. Alignment of stressed syllables
B. Ending rhyme
C. Internal rhyme
D. Enjambment pattern
Answer: A
420. “Metaplasm” is:
A. Deliberate alteration of word form
B. Excessive metaphor
C. Changing narrative viewpoint
D. Dramatic pause
Answer: A
421. “Fabula and sjuzhet”
were defined by:
A. Frye
B. Russian Formalists
C. Derrida
D. Bakhtin
Answer: B
422. “Dialect continuum”
refers to:
A. Opposite dialects
B. Dialects that gradually change across regions
C. Dead dialects
D. Borrowed dialects
Answer: B
423. “Dramatic unities” were
proposed by:
A. Aristotle
B. Horace
C. Dryden
D. Sidney
Answer: A
424. “Semantic narrowing”
means:
A. Meaning broadens
B. Meaning becomes more specific
C. Meaning disappears
D. Word becomes archaic
Answer: B
425. “Hamartia” is a hero’s:
A. Virtue
B. Strength
C. Tragic flaw
D. Comic relief
Answer: C
426. “Synesthesia” refers
to:
A. Sound devices
B. Mixing senses (e.g., “warm colors”)
C. Dramatic irony
D. Emotional syntax
Answer: B
427. A “foil narrative” is
used to:
A. Explain plot
B. Contrast main plot
C. Delay ending
D. Avoid climax
Answer: B
428. “Morphophonemics”
studies:
A. Morphology only
B. Phonology only
C. Interaction of morphology and phonology
D. Lexical fields
Answer: C
429. “Masque” is:
A. Comic sketch
B. Court entertainment with music & dance
C. Religious drama
D. Medieval lament
Answer: B
430. “Denouement” comes:
A. Before exposition
B. Before climax
C. After climax
D. In middle
Answer: C
431. “Antonomasia” means:
A. Giving something a new name
B. Repeating same phrase
C. Satirical exaggeration
D. Using symbols
Answer: A
(e.g., “The Bard” for Shakespeare)
432. “Deixis” includes:
A. here, now, you
B. book, table, chair
C. love, hate, fear
D. cat, dog, cow
Answer: A
433. “Poetic justice” means:
A. Hero always wins
B. Moral reward & punishment
C. No punishment
D. Irony only
Answer: B
434. “Peripeteia” means:
A. Recognition
B. Turning point / reversal
C. Lament
D. Ending
Answer: B
435. “Blend” is a process
of:
A. Sound deletion
B. Word fusion
C. Word borrowing
D. Semantic shift
Answer: B
Example: brunch = breakfast + lunch
436. “Parody” imitates a
style:
A. Seriously
B. Humorously
C. Without intention
D. Sorrowfully
Answer: B
437. “Invective” language
is:
A. Polite
B. Neutral
C. Harsh / abusive
D. Poetic
Answer: C
438. “Inciting incident”
begins:
A. Resolution
B. Rising action
C. Falling action
D. Denouement
Answer: B
439. “Minimal pairs” help
analyze:
A. Syntax
B. Phonemes
C. Discourse
D. Literature
Answer: B
440. “Limerick” has:
A. 4 lines
B. 5 lines (AABBA)
C. 6 lines
D. 10 lines
Answer: B
441. “Utopia” describes:
A. Perfect society
B. Horror society
C. Industrial society
D. Pastoral society
Answer: A
442. “Dystopia” describes:
A. Ideal world
B. Corrupt/terrifying society
C. Magical world
D. Religious world
Answer: B
443. “Saqiya” is a term
related to:
A. Drama
B. Lyric
C. Pastoral poetry
D. Arabic elegy
Answer: D
444. “Semantic anomaly”
means:
A. Grammatically wrong
B. Meaningless phrase
C. Rhyme mismatch
D. Stress mismatch
Answer: B
Example: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
445. “Metonymy” example:
A. White House = US government
B. Lion = courage
C. Wheels = car
D. Both A and C
Answer: D
446. “Neologism” means:
A. Old word
B. New word
C. Borrowed word
D. Standard word
Answer: B
447. “Prolepsis” means:
A. Flashback
B. Flashforward
C. Recognition
D. Resolution
Answer: B
448. “Encomium” is a:
A. Speech of praise
B. Speech of criticism
C. Speech of fear
D. Satirical poem
Answer: A
449. “Semantic
presupposition” is:
A. Meaning that must be true for sentence to make sense
B. Change in lexical field
C. Change in stress
D. Cultural meaning only
Answer: A
450. “Leitmotif” means:
A. Unique character trait
B. Repeated theme or idea
C. Breaking structure
D. Narrative shift
Answer: B
451. “Anaphora” is
repetition at the:
A. End of lines
B. Beginning of lines
C. Middle of sentences
D. End of stanza
Answer: B
452. “Epiphany” in
literature means:
A. A tragic event
B. A sudden insight
C. Sudden death
D. Plot twist
Answer: B
453. “Zeugma” refers to:
A. One word governing two meanings
B. Excessive metaphor
C. Long digression
D. Abstract narration
Answer: A
454. A “stock character” is:
A. Complex persona
B. Predictable and stereotypical
C. Always antagonist
D. Always symbolic
Answer: B
455. “Framing narrative”
means:
A. Main plot only
B. Story within a story
C. Dream sequence
D. Chronological order
Answer: B
456. A “chiasmus” is:
A. Parallel structure
B. Reversal of structure (ABBA)
C. Repeated clause
D. Broken syntax
Answer: B
457. “Pidgin” is a:
A. Native language
B. Trade language with reduced grammar
C. Fully developed language
D. Literary dialect
Answer: B
458. “Creole” is:
A. Simplified dialect
B. Pidgin that became native language
C. Secret language
D. Code language
Answer: B
459. “Malapropism” refers
to:
A. Intentional ambiguity
B. Humorous misuse of words
C. Harsh satire
D. Moral preaching
Answer: B
460. “Sibilance” is
repetition of:
A. P, B sounds
B. S, Sh sounds
C. T, D sounds
D. M, N sounds
Answer: B
461. “Metafiction” refers to
fiction that:
A. Follows strict realism
B. Discusses its own fictional nature
C. Uses mythology
D. Avoids narrative
Answer: B
462. “Aposiopesis” is:
A. Sudden silence in speech
B. Extended metaphor
C. Harsh critique
D. Repetition of ending words
Answer: A
463. “Free indirect speech”
combines:
A. First + second person
B. Narrator + character’s inner voice
C. Stage directions + monologue
D. Dialogue + commentary
Answer: B
464. “Pathetic fallacy”
associates:
A. Emotions with nature
B. Sound with memory
C. Place with identity
D. Characters with objects
Answer: A
465. “Heteroglossia” is a
term by:
A. Eliot
B. Bakhtin
C. Arnold
D. Derrida
Answer: B
466. “Heteroglossia” means:
A. Single voice
B. Multiple voices/languages in text
C. No voice
D. Internal monologue only
Answer: B
467. “Semantic bleaching”
refers to:
A. Word losing emotional force
B. Word becoming stronger
C. Word becoming technical
D. Word turning foreign
Answer: A
468. “Peroration” is part of
a speech that:
A. Begins argument
B. Introduces topic
C. Concludes with impact
D. Creates digression
Answer: C
469. “Amplification” is the
process of:
A. Reducing detail
B. Expanding detail for emphasis
C. Omitting information
D. Reversing narration
Answer: B
470. “Palindrome poem” reads
the same:
A. By meaning
B. Backwards and forwards
C. In rhyme scheme
D. Across stanzas
Answer: B
471. “Polyptoton” is
repetition of:
A. Entire lines
B. Words from same root
C. Rhyme pattern
D. Syllables only
Answer: B
472. “Sociolinguistics”
studies:
A. Grammar only
B. Language + society
C. Sounds only
D. Literary form only
Answer: B
473. “Diachronic
linguistics” studies:
A. Language at one point in time
B. Language change over time
C. Psychological meaning
D. Sound system
Answer: B
474. “Synchronic
linguistics” studies:
A. Language history
B. Language at one point in time
C. Cognition
D. Morphology only
Answer: B
475. “Imagism” emphasized:
A. Ornamented language
B. Clear & precise images
C. Long narrative style
D. Excessive symbolism
Answer: B
476. “Beat Movement” is
associated with:
A. 18th century
B. 1950s counterculture
C. Classical era
D. Victorian period
Answer: B
477. “Neoclassicism”
emphasized:
A. Emotion
B. Reason & order
C. Free form
D. Expressionism
Answer: B
478. “Structuralism” focuses
on:
A. Personal interpretation
B. Underlying structures
C. Emotional criticism
D. Author biography
Answer: B
479. “Post-structuralism”
argues:
A. Meaning is stable
B. Meaning is unstable and shifting
C. Language is fixed
D. Grammar leads to final truth
Answer: B
480. “Defamiliarization” was
proposed by:
A. Russian Formalists
B. New Critics
C. Deconstructionists
D. Existentialists
Answer: A
481. “Phoneme” is the
smallest unit of:
A. Grammar
B. Meaning
C. Sound
D. Syntax
Answer: C
482. “Morpheme” is the
smallest unit of:
A. Sound
B. Meaning
C. Stress
D. Syntax
Answer: B
483. “Bound morpheme”
example:
A. Dog
B. Un-
C. Run
D. Book
Answer: B
484. “Schwa” is the:
A. Longest vowel
B. Most common unstressed vowel
C. Slowest consonant
D. High back vowel
Answer: B
485. “Generative grammar”
was developed by:
A. Chomsky
B. Saussure
C. Bloomfield
D. Jakobson
Answer: A
486. “Pragmatics” studies:
A. Literal meaning
B. Meaning in context
C. Sentence arrangement
D. Sound patterns
Answer: B
487. “Allomorph” means:
A. Multiple meanings of a word
B. Variants of a morpheme
C. Variants of a phoneme
D. Variant rhyme
Answer: B
488. “Ellipsis” means:
A. Adding a phrase
B. Omitting words
C. Changing tone
D. Reversing plot
Answer: B
489. “Novella” is:
A. Long novel
B. Medium-length fiction
C. Short poem
D. Riddle
Answer: B
490. “Bildungsroman” is a
novel of:
A. War
B. Childhood to maturity
C. Magic
D. Economics
Answer: B
491. “Catharsis” refers to:
A. Emotional cleansing
B. Emotional buildup
C. Dramatic entry
D. Narrative opening
Answer: A
492. “Hypotaxis” involves:
A. Coordination
B. Subordination
C. Fragmentation
D. Parataxis
Answer: B
493. “Parataxis” involves:
A. Subordination
B. Coordination
C. Omissions
D. Ellipsis
Answer: B
494. “Elegy” is a poem of:
A. Celebration
B. Laughter
C. Mourning
D. Anger
Answer: C
495. “Idiolect” is:
A. Group speech
B. Personal speech variety
C. National dialect
D. Social dialect
Answer: B
496. “Comic relief” appears
in:
A. Tragedy
B. Comedy
C. Romance
D. Epic
Answer: A
497. “Gothic literature”
includes:
A. Natural landscapes
B. Horror, mystery, supernatural
C. Logic & order
D. Religious doctrine
Answer: B
498. “Foreshadowing”
indicates:
A. Past events
B. Future hints
C. Setting shifts
D. Character description
Answer: B
499. “Allegory” expresses:
A. One surface meaning only
B. Hidden moral/spiritual meaning
C. Random imagery
D. Emotional tone
Answer: B
500. “Epilogue” appears:
A. Before story
B. After story
C. Between chapters
D. At climax
Answer: B
501. “Metalepsis” refers to:
A. Overlapping metaphors
B. A figure within another figure
C. Excessive personification
D. Simultaneous narratives
Answer: B
502. “Phatic communion” refers to language used
for:
A. Information
B. Social bonding
C. Argument
D. Negotiation
Answer: B
503. “Prosody” studies:
A. Meaning
B. Narrative
C. Versification
D. Syntax
Answer: C
504. A “nonce word” is:
A. Borrowed vocabulary
B. Created for one-time use
C. Dialect variation
D. Archaic word
Answer: B
505. “Semantic narrowing” means:
A. Word’s meaning becomes broader
B. Word’s meaning becomes specialized
C. Word becomes slang
D. Word loses meaning
Answer: B
506. “Trochee” follows the pattern:
A. Unstressed–stressed
B. Stressed–unstressed
C. Two stresses
D. No stress
Answer: B
507. “Ballad stanza” follows:
A. ABAB
B. ABCB
C. AAAA
D. AABB
Answer: B
508. “Synecdoche” is:
A. Part for whole
B. Whole for part
C. Both A & B
D. No relation
Answer: C
509. “Minimal pair” example:
A. cat–cot
B. cat–dog
C. big–bigger
D. run–ran
Answer: A
510. “Dialect” refers to variation in:
A. Grammar
B. Vocabulary
C. Pronunciation
D. All of the above
Answer: D
511. “Neologism” means:
A. Old word
B. Newly coined word
C. Misused word
D. Borrowed word
Answer: B
512. The “Harlem Renaissance” is associated with:
A. Linguistics
B. African American art & literature
C. British satire
D. Symbolism
Answer: B
513. “Oxymoron” example:
A. Sweet sorrow
B. Cold ice
C. Soft pillow
D. Loud voice
Answer: A
514. “Bathos” refers to:
A. Smooth transition
B. Ludicrous descent in style
C. Elevated language
D. Classical decorum
Answer: B
515. “Allegorical characters” represent:
A. Real people
B. Abstract ideas
C. Comedy only
D. Myth only
Answer: B
516. “Free morpheme” example:
A. -ness
B. un-
C. book
D. -ing
Answer: C
517. “Back-formation” example:
A. Television → TV
B. Donation → donate
C. Book → booklet
D. Radio → radiate
Answer: B
518. “Etymology” studies:
A. Word history
B. Word stress
C. Sentence formation
D. Sound pattern
Answer: A
519. “Antithesis” uses:
A. Repetition
B. Opposing ideas
C. Sound echo
D. Symbolic names
Answer: B
520. “Epistolary novel” uses:
A. Dialogue
B. Letters
C. Dreams
D. History
Answer: B
521. “Syntax” is concerned with:
A. Sentences
B. Words
C. Sounds
D. Meaning
Answer: A
522. “Metafiction” refers to:
A. Fiction about fiction
B. Biographical fiction
C. Historical fiction
D. Travel fiction
Answer: A
523. “Choric character” in drama:
A. Stands for society
B. Acts as villain
C. Represents comedy
D. Acts as director
Answer: A
524. “Hapax legomenon” means:
A. Word used only once
B. Word repeated often
C. Archaic phrase
D. Borrowed word
Answer: A
525. “Paralinguistic features” include:
A. Grammar
B. Gesture & tone
C. Vocabulary
D. Rhyme
Answer: B
526. “Ode” is generally:
A. Irregular and exalted
B. Comic and light
C. Rigid and short
D. Prose-like
Answer: A
527. Morphological process “clipping” example:
A. edit → editor
B. examination → exam
C. nation → national
D. book → booklet
Answer: B
528. “Redundancy” in linguistics means:
A. Ambiguity
B. Unnecessary repetition
C. Missing words
D. New usage
Answer: B
529. “Palindrome” example:
A. level
B. live
C. aside
D. ever
Answer: A
530. “Meter” in poetry refers to:
A. Rhyme
B. Rhythm pattern
C. Topic
D. Symbol
Answer: B
531. “Isocolon” means:
A. Unequal clauses
B. Parallel structure of equal length
C. Dialogue shift
D. Ending repetition
Answer: B
532. “Hypallage” refers to:
A. Reversal of grammatical relation
B. Long metaphor
C. Harsh sound
D. Smooth tone
Answer: A
533. “Trope” is a:
A. Rhyme scheme
B. Figurative expression
C. Poetic meter
D. Character type
Answer: B
534. “Syntactic ambiguity” occurs when:
A. Words have multiple meanings
B. Sentence structure allows multiple interpretations
C. Grammar collapses
D. Words are new
Answer: B
535. “Semantic field” means:
A. Grammar class
B. Group of related meanings
C. Word order
D. Bound morpheme
Answer: B
536. “Hyperbaton” involves:
A. Normal order
B. Inversion
C. Deletion
D. Reduplication
Answer: B
537. “Villanelle” contains:
A. 14 lines
B. 19 lines
C. 10 lines
D. 21 lines
Answer: B
538. “Portmanteau” example:
A. smoke + fog = smog
B. cat + dog = cod
C. boy + friend = boyfriend
D. run + ing = running
Answer: A
539. “Denotation” refers to:
A. Emotional meaning
B. Literal meaning
C. Figurative meaning
D. Symbolic meaning
Answer: B
540. “Connotation” refers to:
A. Literal meaning
B. Emotional associations
C. Grammatical usage
D. Morphemic structure
Answer: B
541. “Feminist criticism” examines:
A. Rhythm
B. Gender power structures
C. Economic theories
D. Myth
Answer: B
542. “Phonotactics” studies:
A. Meaning
B. Allowed sound combinations
C. Grammar
D. Syntax
Answer: B
543. “Pidgin” develops when:
A. Two groups share native language
B. People need a simplified contact language
C. A dialect becomes extinct
D. Grammar collapses
Answer: B
544. “Creole continuum” describes:
A. Development of dialect
B. Range of Creole varieties
C. Phonetic change
D. Morphological change
Answer: B
545. “Register” refers to:
A. Social context of language use
B. Random vocabulary
C. Sound pattern
D. Rhyme scheme
Answer: A
546. “Litotes” is:
A. Exaggeration
B. Understatement
C. Harsh metaphor
D. Personification
Answer: B
547. “Persona” in poetry means:
A. Poet himself
B. Speaker/voice created
C. Audience
D. Character
Answer: B
548. “Semantic shift” means:
A. No change
B. Change in meaning over time
C. Change in pronunciation
D. Reduction in stress
Answer: B
549. “Phonemic transcription” uses:
A. Roman numerals
B. IPA symbols
C. Hebrew script
D. Greek alphabet
Answer: B
550. “Anadiplosis” is the repetition of:
A. First word again
B. Last word at the beginning of next clause
C. Whole sentence
D. Rhyme pattern
Answer: B
501. “Metalepsis” refers to:
A. Overlapping metaphors
B. A figure within another figure
C. Excessive personification
D. Simultaneous narratives
Answer: B
502. “Phatic communion” refers to language used
for:
A. Information
B. Social bonding
C. Argument
D. Negotiation
Answer: B
503. “Prosody” studies:
A. Meaning
B. Narrative
C. Versification
D. Syntax
Answer: C
504. A “nonce word” is:
A. Borrowed vocabulary
B. Created for one-time use
C. Dialect variation
D. Archaic word
Answer: B
505. “Semantic narrowing” means:
A. Word’s meaning becomes broader
B. Word’s meaning becomes specialized
C. Word becomes slang
D. Word loses meaning
Answer: B
506. “Trochee” follows the pattern:
A. Unstressed–stressed
B. Stressed–unstressed
C. Two stresses
D. No stress
Answer: B
507. “Ballad stanza” follows:
A. ABAB
B. ABCB
C. AAAA
D. AABB
Answer: B
508. “Synecdoche” is:
A. Part for whole
B. Whole for part
C. Both A & B
D. No relation
Answer: C
509. “Minimal pair” example:
A. cat–cot
B. cat–dog
C. big–bigger
D. run–ran
Answer: A
510. “Dialect” refers to variation in:
A. Grammar
B. Vocabulary
C. Pronunciation
D. All of the above
Answer: D
511. “Neologism” means:
A. Old word
B. Newly coined word
C. Misused word
D. Borrowed word
Answer: B
512. The “Harlem Renaissance” is associated with:
A. Linguistics
B. African American art & literature
C. British satire
D. Symbolism
Answer: B
513. “Oxymoron” example:
A. Sweet sorrow
B. Cold ice
C. Soft pillow
D. Loud voice
Answer: A
514. “Bathos” refers to:
A. Smooth transition
B. Ludicrous descent in style
C. Elevated language
D. Classical decorum
Answer: B
515. “Allegorical characters” represent:
A. Real people
B. Abstract ideas
C. Comedy only
D. Myth only
Answer: B
516. “Free morpheme” example:
A. -ness
B. un-
C. book
D. -ing
Answer: C
517. “Back-formation” example:
A. Television → TV
B. Donation → donate
C. Book → booklet
D. Radio → radiate
Answer: B
518. “Etymology” studies:
A. Word history
B. Word stress
C. Sentence formation
D. Sound pattern
Answer: A
519. “Antithesis” uses:
A. Repetition
B. Opposing ideas
C. Sound echo
D. Symbolic names
Answer: B
520. “Epistolary novel” uses:
A. Dialogue
B. Letters
C. Dreams
D. History
Answer: B
521. “Syntax” is concerned with:
A. Sentences
B. Words
C. Sounds
D. Meaning
Answer: A
522. “Metafiction” refers to:
A. Fiction about fiction
B. Biographical fiction
C. Historical fiction
D. Travel fiction
Answer: A
523. “Choric character” in drama:
A. Stands for society
B. Acts as villain
C. Represents comedy
D. Acts as director
Answer: A
524. “Hapax legomenon” means:
A. Word used only once
B. Word repeated often
C. Archaic phrase
D. Borrowed word
Answer: A
525. “Paralinguistic features” include:
A. Grammar
B. Gesture & tone
C. Vocabulary
D. Rhyme
Answer: B
526. “Ode” is generally:
A. Irregular and exalted
B. Comic and light
C. Rigid and short
D. Prose-like
Answer: A
527. Morphological process “clipping” example:
A. edit → editor
B. examination → exam
C. nation → national
D. book → booklet
Answer: B
528. “Redundancy” in linguistics means:
A. Ambiguity
B. Unnecessary repetition
C. Missing words
D. New usage
Answer: B
529. “Palindrome” example:
A. level
B. live
C. aside
D. ever
Answer: A
530. “Meter” in poetry refers to:
A. Rhyme
B. Rhythm pattern
C. Topic
D. Symbol
Answer: B
531. “Isocolon” means:
A. Unequal clauses
B. Parallel structure of equal length
C. Dialogue shift
D. Ending repetition
Answer: B
532. “Hypallage” refers to:
A. Reversal of grammatical relation
B. Long metaphor
C. Harsh sound
D. Smooth tone
Answer: A
533. “Trope” is a:
A. Rhyme scheme
B. Figurative expression
C. Poetic meter
D. Character type
Answer: B
534. “Syntactic ambiguity” occurs when:
A. Words have multiple meanings
B. Sentence structure allows multiple interpretations
C. Grammar collapses
D. Words are new
Answer: B
535. “Semantic field” means:
A. Grammar class
B. Group of related meanings
C. Word order
D. Bound morpheme
Answer: B
536. “Hyperbaton” involves:
A. Normal order
B. Inversion
C. Deletion
D. Reduplication
Answer: B
537. “Villanelle” contains:
A. 14 lines
B. 19 lines
C. 10 lines
D. 21 lines
Answer: B
538. “Portmanteau” example:
A. smoke + fog = smog
B. cat + dog = cod
C. boy + friend = boyfriend
D. run + ing = running
Answer: A
539. “Denotation” refers to:
A. Emotional meaning
B. Literal meaning
C. Figurative meaning
D. Symbolic meaning
Answer: B
540. “Connotation” refers to:
A. Literal meaning
B. Emotional associations
C. Grammatical usage
D. Morphemic structure
Answer: B
541. “Feminist criticism” examines:
A. Rhythm
B. Gender power structures
C. Economic theories
D. Myth
Answer: B
542. “Phonotactics” studies:
A. Meaning
B. Allowed sound combinations
C. Grammar
D. Syntax
Answer: B
543. “Pidgin” develops when:
A. Two groups share native language
B. People need a simplified contact language
C. A dialect becomes extinct
D. Grammar collapses
Answer: B
544. “Creole continuum” describes:
A. Development of dialect
B. Range of Creole varieties
C. Phonetic change
D. Morphological change
Answer: B
545. “Register” refers to:
A. Social context of language use
B. Random vocabulary
C. Sound pattern
D. Rhyme scheme
Answer: A
546. “Litotes” is:
A. Exaggeration
B. Understatement
C. Harsh metaphor
D. Personification
Answer: B
547. “Persona” in poetry means:
A. Poet himself
B. Speaker/voice created
C. Audience
D. Character
Answer: B
548. “Semantic shift” means:
A. No change
B. Change in meaning over time
C. Change in pronunciation
D. Reduction in stress
Answer: B
549. “Phonemic transcription” uses:
A. Roman numerals
B. IPA symbols
C. Hebrew script
D. Greek alphabet
Answer: B
550. “Anadiplosis” is the repetition of:
A. First word again
B. Last word at the beginning of next clause
C. Whole sentence
D. Rhyme pattern
Answer: B
551. “Alliteration” refers to repetition of:
A. Vowel sounds
B. Consonant sounds at the beginning of words
C. Rhyming sounds
D. Ending syllables
Answer: B
552. “Ominiscient narrator” means:
A. Knows only one character
B. Knows everything about all characters
C. Speaks in first person only
D. Cannot interpret events
Answer: B
553. “Paronomasia” is another term for:
A. Pun
B. Ode
C. Elegy
D. Allegory
Answer: A
554. “Archaism” refers to:
A. Brand new words
B. Very old-fashioned words
C. Slang usage
D. Foreign borrowings
Answer: B
555. “Clipping” example:
A. Biology → biologist
B. Demonstration → demo
C. Teach → teacher
D. Act → actor
Answer: B
556. “Epic simile” is associated mainly with:
A. Novels
B. Drama
C. Epic poetry
D. Lyrical ballads
Answer: C
557. “Chronotope” was coined by:
A. Derrida
B. Bakhtin
C. Foucault
D. Northrop Frye
Answer: B
558. “Chronotope” means:
A. Time-space relationship in narrative
B. Rhythm of lines
C. Narrative voice
D. Symbolic imagery
Answer: A
559. “Homonym” means:
A. Words spelled same, different meaning
B. Words that sound similar
C. Words with opposite meaning
D. Words with shared origin
Answer: A
560. “Intentional fallacy” warns against:
A. Ignoring the poet
B. Equating author intention with meaning
C. Reading only themes
D. Ignoring rhyme
Answer: B
561. “Semantic anomaly” example:
A. The green grass
B. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
C. The dog barked loudly
D. She sang a song
Answer: B
562. “Caesura” is a:
A. Rhyme
B. Pause in the middle of a line
C. Refrain
D. Footnote
Answer: B
563. “Intertextuality” means:
A. Using historical notes
B. Dialogue-heavy text
C. Relationship between texts
D. Meaningless text
Answer: C
564. “Phonology” studies:
A. Word roots
B. Sound patterns
C. Sentence types
D. Semantic fields
Answer: B
565. “Graphic novel” uses:
A. Only text
B. Text + visual art
C. Poetry
D. Only dialogue
Answer: B
566. “Sestina” contains:
A. 6 stanzas of 6 lines + envoi
B. 5 stanzas
C. 14 lines
D. 10 lines
Answer: A
567. “Periphrasis” refers to:
A. Overuse of simple words
B. Using a long phrase instead of a short one
C. Repeating conjunctions
D. Breaking syntax
Answer: B
568. “Cliché” is:
A. Fresh metaphor
B. Overused expression
C. Technical term
D. Narrative device
Answer: B
569. “Stressed syllable” in English is pronounced:
A. softly
B. loudly, with force
C. with no vowel
D. as a whisper
Answer: B
570. “Semantic change” includes:
A. Broadening
B. Narrowing
C. Bleaching
D. All of the above
Answer: D
571. “Euphemism” means:
A. Softened expression
B. Harsh insult
C. Literal phrase
D. Broken metaphor
Answer: A
572. “Lyrical ballad” combines:
A. Romance + essay
B. Song-like lyric + story
C. History + prophecy
D. Science + philosophy
Answer: B
573. “Unreliable narrator” is one who:
A. Always tells truth
B. Misleads or distorts reality
C. Only narrates past
D. Uses omniscient view
Answer: B
574. “Discourse analysis” studies:
A. Individual words
B. Sentences only
C. Language use in larger units
D. Only sounds
Answer: C
575. “Eclogue” is a type of:
A. Petrarchan sonnet
B. Pastoral poem
C. Epic scene
D. Dramatic monologue
Answer: B
576. “Semantic shift” example:
A. Mouse (animal → computer tool)
B. Book → booklet
C. teach → teacher
D. Smile → smiling
Answer: A
577. “Foil character” works to:
A. Provide comedy
B. Hide plot
C. Contrast the main character
D. Narrate story
Answer: C
578. “Dystopian fiction” portrays:
A. Ideal society
B. Terrible oppressive society
C. Peaceful world
D. Natural world
Answer: B
579. “Paratext” includes:
A. Characters
B. Title page, preface, footnotes
C. Only chapters
D. Quotations
Answer: B
580. “Phoneme deletion” example:
A. star → tar
B. cat → cap
C. run → running
D. walk → walked
Answer: A
581. “Mimesis” in Aristotle means:
A. Emotion
B. Imitation
C. Happiness
D. Fear
Answer: B
582. “Semantic prosody” refers to:
A. Emotional meaning a word carries
B. Sentence rhythm
C. Derivational suffix
D. Figurative metaphor
Answer: A
583. “Blank verse” is:
A. Free rhyme
B. Unrhymed iambic pentameter
C. Rhymed couplet
D. Internal rhyme
Answer: B
584. “Enjambment” means:
A. Stopping at end of line
B. Running over a line without pause
C. Strong rhyme
D. Fixed rhythm
Answer: B
585. “Juxtaposition” creates meaning by:
A. Opposing words
B. Placing ideas side by side
C. Removing words
D. Changing tense
Answer: B
586. “Semantic opposition” refers to:
A. Synonyms
B. Antonyms
C. Homophones
D. Clichés
Answer: B
587. “Rhetorical question” expects:
A. Detailed answer
B. No real answer
C. Multiple answers
D. Argument
Answer: B
588. “Archetype” according to Jung means:
A. Random symbol
B. Universal pattern
C. Local custom
D. Personal habit
Answer: B
589. “Tautology” means:
A. Saying same thing twice
B. Saying opposite meanings
C. Total silence
D. Perfect rhythm
Answer: A
590. “Tropes” include:
A. Metaphor
B. Metonymy
C. Irony
D. All of the above
Answer: D
591. “Interlinear translation” places text:
A. Above original
B. Side by side
C. Below original line by line
D. Reversed
Answer: C
592. “Lexeme” refers to:
A. Word meaning unit
B. Sentence pattern
C. Sound group
D. Narrative device
Answer: A
593. “Anagnorisis” means:
A. Recognition
B. Repetition
C. Symbolic ending
D. Climax
Answer: A
594. “Polysemy” means:
A. Word with one meaning
B. Word with many meanings
C. Opposite words
D. New vocabulary
Answer: B
595. “Trope of irony” expresses:
A. Exact meaning
B. Opposite meaning
C. Similar meaning
D. No meaning
Answer: B
596. “Cataphora” refers to:
A. Reference forward
B. Reference backward
C. Reference repeated
D. No reference
Answer: A
597. “Anaphora” refers to:
A. Backward reference
B. Forward reference
C. Symbolic reference
D. Sound-based reference
Answer: A
(In discourse, anaphora = backward reference)
598. “Poetic diction” means:
A. Ordinary speech
B. Elevated, artistic word choice
C. Broken syntax
D. Foreign words
Answer: B
599. “Semantic redundancy” is:
A. Meaning that adds no new information
B. Heavy rhyme
C. Poetic inversion
D. Derivational shift
Answer: A
600. “Iconicity” in linguistics means:
A. Arbitrary link between word and meaning
B. Natural resemblance between form and meaning
C. Opposite meaning
D. Borrowed meaning
Answer: B
601. “Phonaesthesia” refers to:
A. Arbitrary sound
B. Sound clusters associated with meaning
C. Borrowed sounds
D. Purely symbolic sounds
Answer: B
(e.g., gl- for light: glitter, glow)
602. “Semantic priming” shows that:
A. Words are learned randomly
B. One word activates related meanings
C. Sounds create grammar
D. Syntax predicts rhythm
Answer: B
603. “Portmanteau” involves:
A. Two meanings
B. Blending two words
C. Borrowing a root
D. Removing affixes
Answer: B
604. “Cadence” in prose refers to:
A. Rhythm or flow of language
B. Harsh metaphor
C. Sound distortion
D. Rhyme scheme
Answer: A
605. “Semantic features” describe:
A. Sound units
B. Meaning components of a word
C. Syntax markers
D. Phoneme lists
Answer: B
606. “Peripeteia” means:
A. Discovery
B. Reversal of fortune
C. Falling action
D. Climax
Answer: B
607. “Epistolary fiction” uses:
A. Flashbacks
B. Letters and journals
C. Multiple narrators
D. Dramatic monologues
Answer: B
608. “Prosodic stress” refers to:
A. Word spelling
B. Pattern of emphasis
C. Syntax reversal
D. Figurative tone
Answer: B
609. “Polysemous word” means:
A. One meaning
B. Opposite meaning
C. Multiple meanings
D. No meaning
Answer: C
610. “Paraprosdokian” means:
A. Rising climax
B. Unexpected ending to a sentence
C. Weak metaphor
D. Incorrect grammar
Answer: B
611. “Stylistics” studies:
A. Language history
B. Style and linguistic patterns in texts
C. Only rhyme
D. Only prose
Answer: B
612. “Semantic drift” means:
A. Meaning stays same
B. Gradual shift in meaning
C. Meaning becomes foreign
D. Meaning becomes stronger
Answer: B
613. “Fable” usually contains:
A. Animals as characters
B. Historical data
C. Political satire
D. Scientific language
Answer: A
614. “Stream of consciousness” imitates:
A. External dialogue
B. Flow of inner thoughts
C. Court speeches
D. Mythic symbolism
Answer: B
615. “Palindrome sentence” means:
A. Meaning reverses
B. Reads same backward
C. Rhymes internally
D. Depends on syntax
Answer: B
616. “Euphony” produces:
A. Harsh effect
B. Discordant sound
C. Pleasant sound
D. Monotony
Answer: C
617. “Idioms” are expressions whose meaning is:
A. Literal
B. Predictable from components
C. Non-literal
D. Scientific
Answer: C
618. “Satire” aims to:
A. Praise openly
B. Criticize society through humor
C. Provide simple narration
D. Promote morality directly
Answer: B
619. “Allophone” refers to:
A. Variant of a phoneme
B. Variant of a morpheme
C. Variant of a lexeme
D. Variant of a sentence
Answer: A
620. “Nonce borrowing” means:
A. Borrowed permanently
B. Borrowed temporarily
C. Borrowed incorrectly
D. Borrowed historically
Answer: B
621. “Foreshortening” in drama refers to:
A. Lengthening scenes
B. Compressing events
C. Removing plot
D. Adding characters
Answer: B
622. “Semantic field of ‘emotion’” includes:
A. chair, table
B. walk, run
C. fear, joy, anger
D. cat, lion
Answer: C
623. “Trope of metalepsis” involves:
A. Direct metaphor
B. Indirect reference through multiple layers
C. Pure symbolism
D. Rhyme
Answer: B
624. “Dramatic irony” means:
A. Characters know more
B. Audience knows more
C. No one knows anything
D. Narrator confuses reader
Answer: B
625. “Etymology” explores:
A. Word endings
B. Word origins
C. Word spelling
D. Word stress
Answer: B
626. “Semantic bleaching” example:
A. Terribly good
B. Bookish style
C. Literal translation
D. Strong metaphor
Answer: A
(terribly loses strong meaning; becomes mild intensifier)
627. “Invective” language means:
A. Praising
B. Neutral
C. Harsh criticism
D. Metaphorical
Answer: C
628. “Poetic inversion” is also called:
A. Hyperbaton
B. Zeugma
C. Parody
D. Irony
Answer: A
629. “Pathetic fallacy” ascribes:
A. Human qualities to nature
B. Human actions to animals
C. Animal actions to humans
D. Logic to emotions
Answer: A
630. “Anadiplosis” example:
A. Love leads to hate; hate leads to war
B. The sun sets; the moon rises
C. She smiled sweetly
D. He read all night
Answer: A
(Ends and begins with same word)
631. “Semantic overextension” example:
A. Child calls all men “daddy”
B. Child calls only father “daddy”
C. Child calls toys “things”
D. Child calls animals “pets”
Answer: A
632. “Lexical diffusion” refers to:
A. Instant change
B. Gradual vocabulary change
C. Change in syntax
D. Change in stress
Answer: B
633. “Modal verbs” express:
A. Tense
B. Mood (possibility, ability, permission)
C. Voice
D. Gender
Answer: B
634. “Syllable-timed language” example:
A. English
B. French
C. German
D. Russian
Answer: B
635. “Stress-timed language” example:
A. Spanish
B. Italian
C. English
D. French
Answer: C
636. “Homophones” are:
A. Same spelling
B. Same sound
C. Opposite meaning
D. Rarer words
Answer: B
637. “Semantic transparency” refers to words whose
meaning is:
A. Non-obvious
B. Obvious from parts
C. Borrowed
D. Historical
Answer: B
638. “Pastiche” imitates:
A. Tone only
B. Style without mockery
C. Style with mockery
D. Grammar patterns
Answer: B
639. “Interrogative mood” indicates:
A. Command
B. Question
C. Wish
D. Emotion
Answer: B
640. “Narratology” studies:
A. Syntax
B. Narrative structure
C. Semantics
D. Prosody
Answer: B
641. “Anachronism” means:
A. Wrong time period reference
B. Wrong pronunciation
C. Wrong syntax
D. Ambiguous meaning
Answer: A
642. “Metonymy” example:
A. Pen is mightier than sword
B. As brave as a lion
C. Soft as silk
D. Bright future
Answer: A
643. “Synecdoche” example:
A. Wheels for car
B. Handsome man
C. Running fast
D. Red dress
Answer: A
644. “Semantic anomaly” means:
A. Grammar error
B. Meaningless sentence
C. Perfect metaphor
D. Extended rhyme
Answer: B
645. “Accentual-syllabic meter” uses:
A. Only syllables
B. Only stress
C. Both stress and syllables
D. Neither
Answer: C
646. “Cataphoric reference” points:
A. Forward
B. Backward
C. Upward
D. Nowhere
Answer: A
647. “Anaphoric reference” points:
A. Forward
B. Backward
C. Sideways
D. None
Answer: B
648. “Semantic equivalence” means:
A. No relation
B. Opposite
C. Same meaning
D. Contradictory
Answer: C
649. “Lyric poem” expresses:
A. Humor
B. Personal emotion
C. Heroic story
D. Political satire
Answer: B
650. “Petrachan sonnet” pattern is:
A. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
B. ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
C. AAAA BBBB
D. ABC ABC
Answer: B
651. “Morphosyntax” studies:
A. Sounds only
B. Word formation + sentence structure
C. Narrative strategies
D. Figurative language
Answer: B
652. “Semantic neutrality” describes a word that
is:
A. Strongly emotional
B. Without emotional charge
C. Borrowed
D. Archaic
Answer: B
653. “Orthography” refers to:
A. Stress patterns
B. Spelling system
C. Narrative arrangement
D. Tone
Answer: B
654. “Epanalepsis” is repetition at the:
A. Beginning and end of the same sentence
B. Middle only
C. End only
D. Start only
Answer: A
655. “Semantic opposition” example:
A. tall–huge
B. hot–cold
C. walking–walked
D. blue–green
Answer: B
656. “Narrative pacing” refers to:
A. Characters’ speed
B. Speed of plot progression
C. Speed of dialogue
D. Speed of reading
Answer: B
657. The “Heroic Quatrain” is written in:
A. Iambic pentameter
B. Trochaic tetrameter
C. Anapestic meter
D. Free verse
Answer: A
658. “Apposition” in grammar means:
A. Listing words
B. Two noun phrases describing the same thing
C. Removing nouns
D. Changing tense
Answer: B
659. “Semantic broadening” example:
A. dog → only male dog
B. holiday → all vacations
C. villain → farm worker → criminal
D. meat → animal food only
Answer: B
660. “Comic epic” combines:
A. Lyric + comedy
B. Epic style + trivial subject
C. Drama + satire
D. Pastoral + dialogue
Answer: B
661. “Skaz” narrative style features:
A. Detached narrator
B. Oral storytelling voice
C. Written formal tone
D. Poetic diction
Answer: B
662. “Syncope” means:
A. Adding sounds
B. Omitting sounds in middle of word
C. Repeating sounds
D. Changing stress
Answer: B
(e.g., never → ne’er)
663. “Semantic intensity” refers to:
A. Weakening meaning
B. Strengthening emotional force
C. Borrowing meaning
D. Removing meaning
Answer: B
664. “Idiom” example:
A. The sun rises
B. Break the ice
C. Birds fly
D. I read books
Answer: B
665. “Dissociation of sensibility” is associated
with:
A. Eliot
B. Arnold
C. Richards
D. Frye
Answer: A
666. “Palindrome structure” in poetry refers to:
A. Same words forward and backward
B. Repeated rhyme
C. Similar meter
D. Symbolic phrasing
Answer: A
667. “Semantic presupposition” example:
A. She stopped smoking
B. She will smoke tomorrow
C. She smokes now
D. Smoking causes harm
Answer: A
Presupposes she smoked before.
668. “Blend formation” example:
A. holiday
B. breakfast + lunch = brunch
C. slowly
D. forgotten
Answer: B
669. “Parallelism” enhances:
A. Rhythm and balance
B. Ambiguity
C. Alliteration
D. Symbolism
Answer: A
670. “Dactyl” pattern is:
A. / × ×
B. × /
C. / ×
D. × × /
Answer: A
(stressed–unstressed–unstressed)
671. “Tragic flaw” of a hero is called:
A. Hubris
B. Hamartia
C. Anagnorisis
D. Catharsis
Answer: B
672. “Hubris” refers to:
A. Wisdom
B. Excessive pride
C. Fortune
D. Inner thought
Answer: B
673. “Sociolinguistic variable” may include:
A. Stress
B. Class, age, gender speech differences
C. Morphemes
D. Phonemes
Answer: B
674. “Semantic discrimination” concerns:
A. Distinguishing sounds
B. Distinguishing meanings
C. Distinguishing dialects
D. Selecting grammar
Answer: B
675. A “Pathetic hero” is:
A. Strong and noble
B. Doomed but sympathetic
C. Evil and powerful
D. Weak villain
Answer: B
676. “In medias res” means:
A. Ending first
B. Beginning in the middle of action
C. Ending suddenly
D. Starting with death
Answer: B
677. “Prosopography” studies:
A. Imagery
B. Collective biography
C. Stagecraft
D. Symbolic meaning
Answer: B
678. “Semantic incompatibility” means:
A. Words share meaning
B. Words cannot co-occur
C. Words rhyme
D. Words sound same
Answer: B
(e.g., The rock is hungry.)
679. “Villain-hero” is a concept of:
A. Romance
B. Gothic fiction
C. Pastoral poetry
D. Beat poetry
Answer: B
680. “Trope of hyperbole” is:
A. Understatement
B. Extreme exaggeration
C. Metonymy
D. Repetition
Answer: B
681. “Semantic priming” involves:
A. Syntax
B. Meaning activating related words
C. Rhythm
D. Grammar
Answer: B
682. “Affective stylistics” was proposed by:
A. Stanley Fish
B. Derrida
C. Wellek
D. Frye
Answer: A
683. “Existentialist literature” emphasizes:
A. Destiny
B. Individual freedom and absurdity
C. Romantic nature
D. Social satire
Answer: B
684. “Hermeneutics” deals with:
A. Grammar
B. Interpretation
C. Sound
D. Deixis
Answer: B
685. “Semantic transfer” refers to:
A. Meaning staying same
B. Meaning shifting to new domain
C. Grammar changing
D. Phoneme deletion
Answer: B
686. “Colloquial diction” is:
A. Very formal
B. Everyday informal speech
C. Technical
D. Poetic
Answer: B
687. “Imitative harmony” is another name for:
A. Onomatopoeia
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Symbol
Answer: A
688. “Semantic extension” leads to:
A. Narrower meaning
B. Broader meaning
C. Opposite meaning
D. Hidden meaning
Answer: B
689. “Ambiguity” may result from:
A. Syntax
B. Semantics
C. Pragmatics
D. All of the above
Answer: D
690. “Morpheme” is:
A. Smallest meaning unit
B. Smallest sound unit
C. Smallest narrative unit
D. Smallest sentence
Answer: A
691. “Hypernym” example:
A. Rose → flower
B. Flower → rose
C. Boy → man
D. Girl → woman
Answer: A
692. “Hyponym” example:
A. Animal → dog
B. Dog → animal
C. Color → blue
D. Living being → plant
Answer: A
(“Dog” is hyponym of “animal.”)
693. “Semantic field of ‘time’” includes:
A. past, present, future
B. chair, desk
C. blue, red
D. run, walk
Answer: A
694. “Tone” expresses:
A. Theme
B. Attitude of narrator
C. Plot
D. Setting
Answer: B
695. “Aphorism” is:
A. Long speech
B. Short, witty truth
C. Epic line
D. Dramatic pause
Answer: B
696. “Allusion” refers to:
A. Direct comparison
B. Reference to another text/event
C. Excessive metaphor
D. Rhythm
Answer: B
697. “Morphophonemic change” example:
A. knife → knives
B. book → books
C. read → reads
D. cat → cats
Answer: A
698. “Semantic polarization” means:
A. Neutral words
B. Strong positive/negative meanings
C. Polite speech
D. Incoherent meaning
Answer: B
699. “Ellipsis” in discourse removes:
A. Necessary words
B. Repeated words
C. Metaphors
D. Sounds
Answer: B
700. “Periphrasis” is used for:
A. Simplicity
B. Elegance or politeness
C. Ambiguity
D. Harsh tone
Answer: B
701. “Speech Act Theory” was introduced by:
A. Saussure
B. J. L. Austin
C. Bloomfield
D. Hymes
Answer: B
702. The “perlocutionary act” refers to:
A. Literal meaning
B. Intended effect
C. Social rule
D. Grammar correction
Answer: B
703. “Langue” refers to:
A. Individual speech
B. Abstract language system
C. Writing
D. Lexicon only
Answer: B
704. “Parole” refers to:
A. Grammar
B. Everyday speech use
C. Syntax rules
D. Lexical categories
Answer: B
705. “Phoneme” is:
A. Smallest meaning unit
B. Smallest sound unit
C. Smallest clause
D. Word
Answer: B
706. “Allophone” means:
A. Same phoneme with varied sounds
B. Opposite meaning
C. Word group
D. Music-like sound
Answer: A
707. “Transformational grammar” is associated with:
A. Saussure
B. Chomsky
C. Sapir
D. Jespersen
Answer: B
708. “Competence” in linguistics means:
A. Actual speech
B. Knowledge of language
C. Writing ability
D. Vocabulary size
Answer: B
709. “Performance” refers to:
A. Ideal grammar
B. Real-life language use
C. Literary performance
D. Drama production
Answer: B
710. “Zero morpheme” example:
A. cat → cats
B. sheep → sheep
C. run → running
D. walk → walked
Answer: B
711. “Pidgin” develops when:
A. One language dominates
B. People need a trade language
C. Children learn first language
D. Language dies
Answer: B
712. “Creole” is:
A. Highly simplified speech
B. Fully developed native language from pidgin
C. Archaic form
D. Technical register
Answer: B
713. “Diglossia” refers to:
A. Two dialects with equal prestige
B. High and low language varieties
C. Language decay
D. Code-switching
Answer: B
714. “Idiolect” means:
A. Language family
B. Individual’s speech style
C. Regional dialect
D. Ethnic language
Answer: B
715. “Sememe” refers to:
A. Smallest meaning component
B. Smallest sound
C. Syntax rule
D. Discourse marker
Answer: A
716. “Deixis” refers to words that depend on:
A. Identity
B. Context
C. Grammar
D. Meter
Answer: B
717. “Cataphoric reference” points to:
A. Backward
B. Forward element
C. Outside text
D. Lexical fields
Answer: B
718. “Sapir–Whorf hypothesis” concerns:
A. Speech act
B. Language shaping thought
C. Rhyme
D. Style
Answer: B
719. “Register” refers to:
A. Vocabulary size
B. Contextual language variety
C. Grammar rules
D. Syntax tree
Answer: B
720. “Assimilation” in phonology means:
A. Removing sounds
B. Changing to resemble nearby sound
C. Word borrowing
D. Syllable creation
Answer: B
721. “Free morpheme” example:
A. -ly
B. un-
C. cat
D. -ness
Answer: C
722. “Bound morpheme” example:
A. book
B. read
C. -ful
D. run
Answer: C
723. “Minimal pair” identifies:
A. Syntax errors
B. Two words differing in one sound
C. Pragmatic shifts
D. Stress patterns
Answer: B
724. “Code-switching” occurs when speakers:
A. Change pitch
B. Switch languages or varieties
C. Change tense
D. Replace vowels
Answer: B
725. “Ockham’s razor” in criticism prefers:
A. Longer explanations
B. Simplest explanation
C. Contradictory arguments
D. Figurative meaning
Answer: B
726. “Mimesis” means:
A. Destruction
B. Imitation
C. Expansion
D. Exaggeration
Answer: B
727. “Catharsis” refers to:
A. Moral decline
B. Emotional purification
C. Fear creation
D. Grief suppression
Answer: B
728. “Anagnorisis” means:
A. Recognition of truth
B. Death
C. Falling action
D. Repetition
Answer: A
729. “Peripeteia” refers to:
A. Final tragedy
B. Reversal of fortune
C. Rising action
D. Comic ending
Answer: B
730. “Metonymy” example:
A. He is like a lion
B. The White House announced
C. Hissing wind
D. Her heart is stone
Answer: B
731. “Synecdoche” example:
A. A part for whole
B. Comparison
C. Irony
D. Hyperbole
Answer: A
732. “Epistrophe” means repetition at the:
A. Beginning of lines
B. End of lines
C. Middle
D. Random
Answer: B
733. “Anaphora” means repetition at the:
A. End of lines
B. Beginning of lines
C. Middle
D. Between stanzas
Answer: B
734. “Bildungsroman” is a:
A. Dream narrative
B. Growth/coming-of-age novel
C. War story
D. Autobiography
Answer: B
735. “High comedy” depends on:
A. Slapstick
B. Intellectual humor
C. Violence
D. Melodrama
Answer: B
736. “Low comedy” depends on:
A. Wit
B. Farce and physical humor
C. Philosophy
D. Abstract thought
Answer: B
737. “Polysyndeton” uses:
A. Excess conjunctions
B. No conjunctions
C. One conjunction
D. Misplaced conjunctions
Answer: A
738. “Asyndeton” uses:
A. Too many conjunctions
B. No conjunctions
C. Only pronouns
D. Heavy alliteration
Answer: B
739. “Intertextuality” concept was advanced by:
A. Kristeva
B. Bloom
C. Eliot
D. Todorov
Answer: A
740. “Structuralism” emphasizes:
A. Individual authorship
B. Systems and structures
C. Emotional effect
D. Psychological motives
Answer: B
741. “Defamiliarization” is associated with:
A. Eliot
B. Tolstoy
C. Shklovsky
D. Barthes
Answer: C
742. “Death of the Author” was proposed by:
A. Derrida
B. Barthes
C. Foucault
D. Eagleton
Answer: B
743. “Panopticon” theory belongs to:
A. Freud
B. Foucault
C. Lacan
D. Marx
Answer: B
744. “Logocentrism” criticizes focus on:
A. Speech over writing
B. Writing over speech
C. Rhythm
D. Irony
Answer: A
745. “Rhizome theory” belongs to:
A. Deleuze & Guattari
B. Derrida
C. Jung
D. Frye
Answer: A
746. “Metafiction” refers to:
A. Pure fantasy
B. Fiction about fiction
C. Realistic narrative
D. Historical truth
Answer: B
747. “Fabula” and “sjuzhet” contrast is from:
A. French theory
B. Russian Formalism
C. German historicism
D. Greek rhetoric
Answer: B
748. “Paradox” example:
A. The sky is blue
B. I know one thing—that I know nothing
C. She is tall
D. Time passes
Answer: B
749. “Heteroglossia” is introduced by:
A. Bakhtin
B. Saussure
C. Jakobson
D. I. A. Richards
Answer: A
750. “The Intentional Fallacy” was proposed by:
A. Eliot
B. Wimsatt & Beardsley
C. Frye
D. Derrida
Answer: B
751. The term “deep
structure” is associated with:
A. Halliday
B. Chomsky
C. Jakobson
D. Sapir
Answer: B
752. “Surface structure”
refers to:
A. Meaning
B. Spoken/written form
C. Mental grammar
D. Phonological rules
Answer: B
753. “Markedness” in
linguistics means:
A. Most common form
B. Less common/unusual form
C. Rhyme scheme
D. Stress pattern
Answer: B
754. “Phatic communication”
involves:
A. Grammar rules
B. Maintaining social contact
C. Technical vocabulary
D. Novel writing
Answer: B
755. “Illocutionary act”
refers to:
A. Intended meaning behind the utterance
B. Literal meaning
C. Physical reaction
D. Acoustic production
Answer: A
756. “Locutionary act”
refers to:
A. Social function
B. Actual utterance
C. Psychological effect
D. Syntax error
Answer: B
757. “Perlocutionary act”
refers to:
A. Force of utterance
B. Effect on listener
C. Grammar correction
D. Semantic shift
Answer: B
758. The term “phrasal verb” consists of:
A. Noun + verb
B. Verb + particle
C. Pronoun + verb
D. Verb + noun
Answer: B
759. A “minimal pair”
example is:
A. cat / catty
B. bat / pat
C. writing / writer
D. man / men
Answer: B
760. “Stress-timed language”
refers to:
A. English
B. French
C. Japanese
D. Tamil
Answer: A
761. “Syllable-timed
language” refers to:
A. English
B. German
C. Spanish
D. Russian
Answer: C
762. “Morphophonemics”
studies:
A. Meaning
B. Sound changes triggered by morphology
C. Syntax trees
D. Rhetoric
Answer: B
763. “Lingua franca” means:
A. Dead language
B. Common language used between groups
C. Mother tongue
D. Classical language
Answer: B
764. “Archaism” is:
A. New coinage
B. Old-fashioned usage
C. Slang
D. Neologism
Answer: B
765. “Code-mixing” means:
A. Literature mixing genres
B. Mixing two languages within a sentence
C. Discourse planning
D. Changing tense
Answer: B
766. “Jargon” refers to:
A. Obsolete words
B. Technical vocabulary of a group
C. Poetry style
D. Formal register
Answer: B
767. “Antithesis” involves:
A. Repetition
B. Strong contrast
C. Emotional appeal
D. Ambiguity
Answer: B
768. “Oxymoron” example:
A. Deafening silence
B. Green grass
C. Beautiful night
D. Rising sun
Answer: A
769. “Pun” refers to:
A. Harsh criticism
B. Wordplay with double meaning
C. Repetition
D. Simile
Answer: B
770. “Euphemism” means:
A. Harsh expression
B. Mild/pleasant substitute
C. Exaggeration
D. Understatement
Answer: B
771. “Dystopia” represents:
A. Ideal world
B. Nightmare society
C. Historical setting
D. Pastoral world
Answer: B
772. “Utopia” represents:
A. Chaotic society
B. Perfect society
C. Industrial city
D. War setting
Answer: B
773. “Foreshadowing” means:
A. Referring backward
B. Hinting future events
C. Internal monologue
D. Time-shift
Answer: B
774. “Denouement” refers to:
A. Beginning of story
B. Climax
C. Resolution
D. Narrative gap
Answer: C
775. “Hamartia” means:
A. Fatal flaw
B. High virtue
C. Mystery
D. Subplot
Answer: A
776. “Hubris” refers to:
A. Warrior loyalty
B. Excessive pride
C. Love
D. Hope
Answer: B
777. “Irony of fate” means:
A. Creator’s irony
B. Destiny controls events
C. Reader controls outcome
D. Plot twist
Answer: B
778. “Epiphany” means:
A. Sudden realization
B. Dark mood
C. Comic relief
D. Cliffhanger
Answer: A
779. “Lampoon” is:
A. Romantic praise
B. Satirical attack
C. Epic poem
D. Philosophical essay
Answer: B
780. “Farce” emphasizes:
A. Emotional tragedy
B. Physical comedy
C. Inner conflict
D. Logical argument
Answer: B
781. “Connotation” refers
to:
A. Dictionary meaning
B. Emotional/suggested meaning
C. Neutral meaning
D. Etymology
Answer: B
782. “Denotation” refers to:
A. Emotional association
B. Literal meaning
C. Symbolic meaning
D. Irony
Answer: B
783. “Alliteration” is
repetition of:
A. Vowels inside words
B. Initial consonant sounds
C. Rhyme scheme
D. Syllables
Answer: B
784. “Assonance” is
repetition of:
A. Consonants
B. Vowel sounds
C. Lines
D. Words
Answer: B
785. “Blank verse” is:
A. Unrhymed iambic pentameter
B. Rhymed quatrain
C. Syllabic verse
D. Heroic couplet
Answer: A
786. “Ballad stanza” usually
follows:
A. 14 lines
B. 4 lines — abcb
C. 6 lines — aabbcc
D. Free verse
Answer: B
787. “Anapest” consists of:
A. – – /
B. / – –
C. – – /
D. – / –
Correct Answer: C
(da-da-DUM)
788. “Trochee” consists of:
A. – /
B. / –
C. / /
D. – –
Answer: B
(DUM-da)
789. “Meter” refers to:
A. Meaning
B. Rhythm pattern
C. Symbolism
D. Syntax pattern
Answer: B
790. “Caesura” is:
A. Rhyme scheme
B. Pause in a line
C. Line break
D. Alliteration
Answer: B
791. “Chiasmus” involves:
A. Repeated sounds
B. Reversing word order (A-B-B-A)
C. Rhyming couplets
D. Parallel syntax
Answer: B
792. “Persona” refers to:
A. Poem length
B. Speaker’s voice in poem
C. Meter
D. Theme
Answer: B
793. “Volta” occurs in:
A. Ballad
B. Sonnet
C. Epic
D. Novel
Answer: B
794. “Ekphrasis” refers to:
A. Description of food
B. Description of art within literature
C. Dialogue in drama
D. Historical flashback
Answer: B
795. “Pastoral” theme
includes:
A. Urban life
B. Rural simplicity
C. War
D. Technology
Answer: B
796. “Naturalism”
emphasizes:
A. Free will
B. Biological and social determinism
C. Heroism
D. Mythic structure
Answer: B
797. “Expressionism” focuses
on:
A. External reality
B. Inner psychological reality
C. Social realism
D. Epic narrative
Answer: B
798. “Formalism” emphasizes:
A. Social context
B. Author’s biography
C. Structure and language of text
D. Reader’s reaction
Answer: C
799. “Reader-response
criticism” emphasizes:
A. Meaning fixed in text
B. Meaning created by reader
C. Author’s intent
D. Moral lesson
Answer: B
800. “Deconstruction”
emphasizes:
A. One stable meaning
B. Multiple shifting meanings
C. Author’s control
D. Textual unity
Answer: B
801. “Semantic borrowing” occurs when:
A. Words lose meaning
B. A word adopts meaning from another language
C. Grammar changes
D. Syntax shifts
Answer: B
802. “Holophrastic stage” in child language refers
to:
A. Two-word sentences
B. One-word utterances
C. Grammar learning
D. Reading stage
Answer: B
803. “Telegraphic speech” is characteristic of:
A. Infants
B. Toddlers
C. Adolescents
D. Adults
Answer: B
(E.g., “want milk”, “go park”)
804. “Overgeneralization” example:
A. went → go
B. run → ran
C. goed → went
D. cat → cats
Answer: C
(Child applies rule incorrectly)
805. “Semantic network” refers to:
A. Grammar tree
B. Meaning relations among words
C. Accent list
D. Morpheme chain
Answer: B
806. “Prescriptive grammar” focuses on:
A. How language should be used
B. How language is actually used
C. Only phonology
D. Only pragmatics
Answer: A
807. “Descriptive grammar” describes:
A. Correct usage
B. Actual usage
C. Incorrect usage
D. Literary usage
Answer: B
808. “Semantic degradation” example:
A. silly (holy → foolish)
B. mouse (animal → device)
C. holiday (holy day → vacation)
D. awful (full of awe → very bad)
Answer: A
809. “Loan translation” is also called:
A. Calque
B. Blend
C. Derivation
D. Conversion
Answer: A
(e.g., “superman” ← German “Übermensch”)
810. “Graphology” studies:
A. Sound
B. Writing system
C. Grammar
D. Meaning
Answer: B
811. “Cline of register” moves from:
A. high → low formality
B. noun → verb
C. rhyme → meter
D. speech → silence
Answer: A
812. “Phonotactics” determines:
A. Possible sound combinations
B. Sentence structure
C. Morpheme order
D. Word meaning
Answer: A
813. “Isogloss” marks:
A. Time period
B. Regional language boundary
C. Social class
D. Syntax categories
Answer: B
814. “Backchanneling” includes:
A. nodding, “hmm”, “yeah”
B. formal speeches
C. silent reading
D. monologue
Answer: A
815. “Hypercorrection” occurs when a speaker:
A. Applies rule naturally
B. Applies rule too strictly
C. Ignores grammar
D. Speaks casually
Answer: B
816. “Semantic primes” according to Wierzbicka are:
A. Opposites
B. Basic universal meanings
C. Only English
D. Only Greek
Answer: B
817. “Conversion” example:
A. email → email (verb)
B. foot → feet
C. cat → cats
D. book → booklet
Answer: A
818. “Elliptical construction” omits:
A. Necessary words
B. Repeated words
C. Unnecessary words
D. Syllables
Answer: B
819. “End-stopped line” means:
A. Continues to next line
B. Stops with punctuation
C. Has no rhythm
D. Has extra stress
Answer: B
820. “Open-class words” include:
A. prepositions
B. determiners
C. nouns, verbs, adjectives
D. articles
Answer: C
821. “Closed-class words” include:
A. nouns
B. verbs
C. adjectives
D. prepositions
Answer: D
822. “Double rhyme” is rhyme of:
A. one syllable
B. two syllables
C. three syllables
D. four syllables
Answer: B
823. “Triple rhyme” example:
A. nation–vacation
B. fire–desire
C. time–rhyme
D. ball–call
Answer: A
824. “Semantic anomaly” example:
A. The door ate my lunch
B. The sky is blue
C. He sings well
D. I read books
Answer: A
825. “Performatives” are utterances that:
A. Describe actions
B. Perform actions
C. Borrow meaning
D. Create rhyme
Answer: B
(e.g., “I apologize”)
826. “Deontic modality” expresses:
A. Ability
B. Obligation/permission
C. Time
D. Tense
Answer: B
827. “Epistemic modality” expresses:
A. Probability/belief
B. Order
C. Emotion
D. Syntax shift
Answer: A
828. “Wh-movement” applies in:
A. declaratives
B. interrogatives
C. imperatives
D. exclamations
Answer: B
829. “Agent” in semantics refers to:
A. Receiver
B. Doer of action
C. Object
D. Helper
Answer: B
830. “Patient” refers to:
A. Initiator
B. Entity affected by action
C. Speaker
D. Listener
Answer: B
831. “Onomatopoeia” example:
A. bright
B. buzz
C. shadow
D. whispering
Answer: B
832. “Semantic prosody” example:
A. cause + problem
B. cause + flowers
C. book + red
D. space + sky
Answer: A
(“Cause” tends to collocate with negatives)
833. “Palimpsest” in literature refers to:
A. erased and overwritten texts
B. short poems
C. pastoral writing
D. magical realism
Answer: A
834. “Binary opposition” is central to:
A. Structuralism
B. Modernism
C. Realism
D. Impressionism
Answer: A
835. “Archetypal criticism” was developed by:
A. Derrida
B. Frye
C. Barthes
D. Bakhtin
Answer: B
836. “Horizon of expectations” is from:
A. Jauss
B. Fish
C. Eagleton
D. Benjamin
Answer: A
837. “Camp aesthetics” was theorized by:
A. Sontag
B. Said
C. Greenblatt
D. Brooks
Answer: A
838. “Thick description” is associated with:
A. Geertz
B. Bloomfield
C. Lacan
D. Foucault
Answer: A
839. “Polyphony” refers to:
A. Single voice
B. Multiple narrative voices
C. Repetition
D. Stage direction
Answer: B
840. “Symbolism” emphasizes:
A. Realism
B. Suggestion and mood
C. Political satire
D. Formal logic
Answer: B
841. “Doppelgänger” means:
A. Ghost
B. Double or twin
C. Hero
D. Monster
Answer: B
842. “Motif” is:
A. Character name
B. Repeated element/theme
C. Ending
D. Setting
Answer: B
843. “Deixis” example:
A. dog
B. here
C. red
D. ice
Answer: B
844. “Interlanguage” refers to:
A. Native grammar
B. Learner’s evolving grammar
C. Standard grammar
D. Literary style
Answer: B
845. “Grapheme” refers to:
A. Sound unit
B. Written symbol
C. Meaning
D. Stress
Answer: B
846. “Free verse” avoids:
A. Rhythm
B. Logical meaning
C. Fixed meter
D. Imagery
Answer: C
847. “Semantic mapping” helps identify:
A. Phonemes
B. Meaning relationships
C. Syntax errors
D. Meter
Answer: B
848. “Optative mood” expresses:
A. Commands
B. Wishes
C. Questions
D. Facts
Answer: B
849. “Declarative sentence” states:
A. Facts
B. Questions
C. Commands
D. Wishes
Answer: A
850. “Imperative sentence” expresses:
A. Command
B. Question
C. Wish
D. Possibility
Answer: A
851. “Exclamatory sentence” expresses:
A. Doubt
B. Strong emotion
C. Calmness
D. Indifference
Answer: B
852. “Semantic contradiction” example:
A. The square is round
B. Birds fly
C. Fire burns
D. Sugar is sweet
Answer: A
853. “Phoneme substitution” example:
A. cat → cap
B. cat → at
C. cat → scat
D. cat → cart
Answer: A
854. “Semantic graph” represents:
A. Sound
B. Meaning connections
C. Stress
D. Grammar
Answer: B
855. “Ambiguity in syntax” example:
A. Visiting relatives can be annoying
B. The dog barked loudly
C. She ran fast
D. They ate dinner
Answer: A
856. “Lexical ambiguity” example:
A. bank (river / money)
B. dog
C. sun
D. road
Answer: A
857. “Hiatus” in phonology refers to:
A. Two vowels next to each other
B. Two consonants
C. Pause
D. Rhyme
Answer: A
858. “Gemination” means:
A. Duplicate morpheme
B. Double consonant
C. Double syllable
D. Double meaning
Answer: B
859. “Reduplication” is:
A. Opposite meaning
B. Repeating all/part of word
C. Borrowing
D. Clipping
Answer: B
860. “Semantic void” means:
A. Word with repeated meaning
B. Concept lacking a word
C. Word without context
D. Borrowed meaning
Answer: B
861. “Performative verb” example:
A. sleep
B. apologize
C. walk
D. scream
Answer: B
862. “Indirect speech act” example:
A. Close the door!
B. Can you close the door?
C. Door closed
D. Close door?
Answer: B
863. “Hedge” example:
A. obviously
B. possibly
C. certainly
D. definitely
Answer: B
864. “Accent” refers to:
A. Syntax
B. Sound pronunciation
C. Word choice
D. Grammar
Answer: B
865. “Dialect” refers to variation in:
A. Grammar
B. Pronunciation
C. Vocabulary
D. All of the above
Answer: D
866. “Case grammar” was developed by:
A. Chomsky
B. Fillmore
C. Saussure
D. Crystal
Answer: B
867. “Transformational rule” example:
A. Adding tense
B. Converting active to passive
C. Adding stress
D. Removing vowels
Answer: B
868. “Semantic presupposition” example:
A. She stopped crying
B. She might cry later
C. She cries every day
D. She is crying
Answer: A
869. “Register shift” occurs when:
A. Pronunciation changes
B. People change formality of language
C. Vocabulary changes
D. Stress shifts
Answer: B
870. “Hyperbole” means:
A. Understatement
B. Exaggeration
C. Metaphor
D. Climax
Answer: B
871. “Litotes” means:
A. Overstatement
B. Ironical understatement
C. Harsh satire
D. Soft rhyme
Answer: B
872. “Semantic flattening” is:
A. Gaining meaning
B. Losing emotional force
C. Adding syllables
D. Contradicting meaning
Answer: B
873. “Word class shift” example:
A. Google → to google
B. go → goes
C. cat → cats
D. walk → walking
Answer: A
874. “Epenthesis” means:
A. Adding sound in middle
B. Removing sound
C. Changing stress
D. Changing tense
Answer: A
875. “Language acquisition device (LAD)” is
proposed by:
A. Krashen
B. Vygotsky
C. Chomsky
D. Skinner
Answer: C
876. “Universal grammar” proposes:
A. All languages identical
B. All languages share innate principles
C. All languages borrow words
D. All languages rhyme
Answer: B
877. “Coherence” refers to:
A. Good spelling
B. Overall meaning connectedness
C. Rhyme
D. Stress
Answer: B
878. “Cohesion” refers to:
A. Structural linking of sentences
B. Emotional emphasis
C. Narrative tone
D. Syntax shift
Answer: A
879. “Deixis” includes words like:
A. here, now
B. blue, green
C. tree, plant
D. run, jump
Answer: A
880. “Persona” means:
A. Poet
B. Voice adopted by poet
C. Audience
D. Speaker’s friend
Answer: B
881. “Polysyllabic word” example:
A. book
B. elephant
C. dog
D. cat
Answer: B
882. “Monosyllabic word” example:
A. table
B. river
C. sun
D. bottle
Answer: C
883. “Semantic relation of antonymy” example:
A. tall–short
B. tall–big
C. tall–tree
D. tall–hill
Answer: A
884. “Lexical item” refers to:
A. Phoneme
B. Word or multiword unit
C. Stress mark
D. Intonation
Answer: B
885. “Derivational morpheme” example:
A. -s
B. -ed
C. un-
D. -ing
Answer: C
886. “Inflectional morpheme” example:
A. -ness
B. -ful
C. -ing
D. un-
Answer: C
887. “Semantic opposition” example:
A. buy–sell
B. buy–purchase
C. buy–shop
D. buy–give
Answer: A
888. “Antonomasia” example:
A. calling a wise man “Solomon”
B. bright light
C. dark night
D. sweet sorrow
Answer: A
889. “Metonymy” example:
A. crown for king
B. brave as a lion
C. ice cold
D. very hot
Answer: A
890. “Polyptoton” example:
A. strong–strength
B. soft–softer
C. run–running
D. cat–cats
Answer: A
891. “Semantic bleaching” example:
A. very unique
B. awesome (losing awe meaning)
C. deadly serious
D. mighty strong
Answer: B
892. “Semantic shift” example:
A. mouse (animal → device)
B. dog → dogs
C. run → running
D. book → booklet
Answer: A
893. “Double entendre” is:
A. Two-syllable rhyme
B. Phrase with two meanings
C. Perfect rhyme
D. Fixed meter
Answer: B
894. “Denouement” refers to:
A. Rising action
B. Climax
C. Resolution of plot
D. Opening scene
Answer: C
895. “Tragedy of character” focuses on:
A. External events
B. Personal flaw
C. Social satire
D. Political conflict
Answer: B
896. “Tragedy of fate” emphasizes:
A. Personal mistake
B. Destiny controlling events
C. Hero’s willpower
D. Sudden comedy
Answer: B
897. “Dark comedy” blends:
A. Epic + lyric
B. Tragedy + humor
C. Farce + romance
D. Ode + satire
Answer: B
898. “Blank verse” is characteristic of:
A. Shakespeare
B. Blake
C. Eliot
D. Chaucer
Answer: A
899. “Metafiction” example:
A. Novel discussing its own creation
B. Fairy tale
C. Pastoral poem
D. War novel
Answer: A
900. “Climax” refers to:
A. Sudden end
B. Turning point of highest tension
C. Falling action
D. Beginning
Answer: B
901. “Semantic anomaly”
example:
A. The stone laughed
B. The sun shines
C. She wrote a letter
D. He opened the door
Answer: A
902. “Co-ordination” joins:
A. Unequal clauses
B. Equal clauses
C. Sounds
D. Themes
Answer: B
903. “Subordination” joins:
A. Equal clauses
B. Unequal clauses
C. Similar meanings
D. Different phonemes
Answer: B
904. “Code-switching”
typically occurs in:
A. Monolingual communities
B. Bilingual/multilingual speakers
C. Ancient languages
D. Child grammar
Answer: B
905. “Nominalization”
converts:
A. Verb → noun
B. Noun → verb
C. Adjective → verb
D. Pronoun → noun
Answer: A
906. “Derivation” involves:
A. Removing endings
B. Adding prefixes/suffixes
C. Deleting consonants
D. Changing stress
Answer: B
907. “Semantic drift” refers
to:
A. Stable meaning
B. Gradual change
C. Opposite meaning
D. Silent shift
Answer: B
908. “Prosody” refers to:
A. Narrative
B. Rhythm & intonation
C. Grammar
D. Spelling
Answer: B
909. “Semantic void” means:
A. Word without letters
B. Concept with no word
C. Word with two meanings
D. Meaning with no grammar
Answer: B
910. “Implicature” was
proposed by:
A. Grice
B. Searle
C. Firth
D. Halliday
Answer: A
911. “Maxim of Quantity”
means:
A. Say too much
B. Say too little
C. Provide appropriate amount of information
D. Speak loudly
Answer: C
912. “Maxim of Quality”
means:
A. Say falsehood
B. Say what you believe is true
C. Use long sentences
D. Avoid politeness
Answer: B
913. “Maxim of Relevance”
means:
A. Change topic
B. Stay on topic
C. Speak emotionally
D. Speak loudly
Answer: B
914. “Maxim of Manner”
means:
A. Speak unclearly
B. Speak clearly, avoid ambiguity
C. Speak quickly
D. Speak loudly
Answer: B
915. “Speech community”
means:
A. People who write poems
B. People sharing norms of language use
C. Only multilingual people
D. Silent readers
Answer: B
916. “Semantic transfer”
example:
A. virus (biological → computer)
B. dog → dogs
C. eat → eating
D. cold → colder
Answer: A
917. “Borrowing” example:
A. robot (from Czech)
B. teach → teacher
C. happy → happiness
D. walk → walked
Answer: A
918. “Calque” example:
A. flea market (from French marché aux puces)
B. trauma
C. physics
D. piano
Answer: A
919. “Loanword” example:
A. jungle (Hindi)
B. sun
C. book
D. write
Answer: A
920. “Semantic bleaching”
reduces:
A. grammar
B. emotional force
C. stress
D. rhyme
Answer: B
921. “Acronym” example:
A. NASA
B. TV
C. bus
D. lab
Answer: A
922. “Initialism” example:
A. RAM
B. NATO
C. UNICEF
D. UNESCO
Answer: A
923. “Blending” example:
A. motel
B. book
C. singer
D. walked
Answer: A
924. “Assimilation” example:
A. input → imput
B. dog → dogs
C. book → bookish
D. read → reading
Answer: A
925. “Dissimilation”
example:
A. marble → marbel
B. pilgrim → pilgrim
C. purple → purpul
D. February → Febyuary
Answer: D
926. “Allomorph” example:
A. plural {-s} pronounced /s/, /z/, /ɪz/
B. cat → cats
C. man → men
D. run → running
Answer: A
927. “Compounding” example:
A. greenhouse
B. singing
C. bigger
D. jumped
Answer: A
928. “Free variation” occurs
when:
A. One meaning only
B. Two pronunciations are acceptable
C. One correct form only
D. Only dialect changes
Answer: B
929. “Lexical field”
example:
A. hope, fear, courage
B. red, green
C. dog, cat
D. book, read
Answer: A
930. “Collocation” refers
to:
A. Rhyme
B. Words that frequently occur together
C. Wrong spelling
D. Fixed meter
Answer: B
931. “Semantic competence”
means:
A. Knowing grammar
B. Knowing meanings & relationships
C. Knowing spelling
D. Knowing punctuation
Answer: B
932. “Syllabic consonant”
example:
A. bottle /l̩/
B. dog
C. car
D. tree
Answer: A
933. “Jargon” refers to:
A. Child speech
B. Specialized technical vocabulary
C. Slang
D. Archaic diction
Answer: B
934. “Idiom” meaning is:
A. Literal
B. Predictable
C. Non-literal
D. Technical
Answer: C
935. “Tacit knowledge”
refers to:
A. Visible rules
B. Unstated knowledge of language
C. Written grammar
D. Foreign vocabulary
Answer: B
936. “Presupposition
failure” occurs if:
A. Speaker tells truth
B. Assumed information is false
C. Listener answers correctly
D. Topic continues normally
Answer: B
937. “Linguistic relativity”
is also called:
A. Speech act
B. Deconstruction
C. Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
D. Structuralism
Answer: C
938. “Diachronic study”
examines:
A. Sound in isolation
B. Language through time
C. Grammar in present
D. Writing techniques
Answer: B
939. “Synchronic study”
examines:
A. Present state of language
B. Past evolution
C. Sound history
D. Poetic forms
Answer: A
940. “Ambiguity” results
from:
A. Clear syntax
B. Single meaning
C. Multiple interpretations
D. Literal phrasing
Answer: C
941. “Semantic redundancy”
means:
A. Extra meaning repeated
B. No meaning
C. Opposite meanings
D. False meaning
Answer: A
942. “Polysemy” means:
A. One meaning
B. Many meanings
C. No meaning
D. False meaning
Answer: B
943. “Homonymy” means:
A. Same spelling, unrelated meanings
B. Same meaning
C. Opposite meaning
D. Same pronunciation
Answer: A
944. “Homophones” are words
that:
A. Sound same
B. Look same
C. Mean same
D. Oppose
Answer: A
945. “Synonym” example:
A. begin–start
B. begin–end
C. begin–run
D. begin–sit
Answer: A
946. “Antonym” example:
A. wise–foolish
B. wise–smart
C. wise–clever
D. wise–sage
Answer: A
947. “Lexical diffusion”
refers to:
A. Sudden change
B. Gradual change across vocabulary
C. Random change
D. Fixed change
Answer: B
948. “Fossilization” refers
to:
A. Rapid learning
B. Errors that become permanent in second-language learning
C. Perfect grammar
D. Complete fluency
Answer: B
949. “Code-switching”
example:
A. Using two languages in a single conversation
B. Whispering
C. Shouting
D. Removing vowels
Answer: A
950. “Hypernym” example:
A. furniture → chair
B. chair → furniture
C. apple → red
D. table → wood
Answer: B
951. “Hyponym” example:
A. fruit → apple
B. apple → fruit
C. fruit → fruit
D. apple → apple
Answer: A
952. “Deixis” includes:
A. here, there
B. cat, dog
C. red, blue
D. run, jump
Answer: A
953. “Semantic relationship”
example:
A. doctor–hospital
B. doctor–tree
C. doctor–white
D. doctor–water
Answer: A
954. “Metonymy” example:
A. The crown = monarchy
B. Brave as a lion
C. Dark as night
D. Very nice
Answer: A
955. “Personification”
example:
A. The wind whispered
B. The wind blew
C. The wind came
D. The wind stopped
Answer: A
956. “Litotes” example:
A. not bad
B. very good
C. extremely nice
D. beautiful
Answer: A
957. “Hyperbole” example:
A. I am so hungry I could eat a horse
B. I ate lunch
C. I saw a horse
D. I walked home
Answer: A
958. “Oxymoron” example:
A. bitter sweet
B. rainbow colors
C. lovely night
D. strong wind
Answer: A
959. “Metaphor” example:
A. He is a shining star
B. He is like a star
C. He saw a star
D. There is a star
Answer: A
960. “Simile” example:
A. She is a rose
B. She is like a rose
C. She grows roses
D. She plants roses
Answer: B
961. “Paradox” example:
A. I must be cruel to be kind
B. Snow is white
C. Fire is hot
D. Ice is cold
Answer: A
962. “Euphemism” example:
A. passed away (for died)
B. died
C. corpse
D. murder
Answer: A
963. “Connotation” of “snake”
includes:
A. only animal
B. danger, evil
C. reptile
D. creature
Answer: B
964. “Denotation” of “snake”
is:
A. danger
B. reptile
C. evil
D. betrayal
Answer: B
965. “Semantic field of
color” includes:
A. red, green, blue
B. big, small, tall
C. anger, joy
D. eat, drink
Answer: A
966. “Graphology” studies:
A. Writing
B. Grammar
C. Narrative
D. Syntax
Answer: A
967. “Phonetics” studies:
A. Speech sounds
B. Meaning
C. Syntax
D. Narrative
Answer: A
968. “Phonology” studies:
A. Sound system patterns
B. Word history
C. Poetic rhythm
D. Dialects
Answer: A
969. “Morphology” studies:
A. Word formation
B. Sentence order
C. Sound pairs
D. Semantic fields
Answer: A
970. “Syntax” studies:
A. Meaning
B. Word order
C. Sound systems
D. Writing
Answer: B
971. “Pragmatics” studies:
A. Literal meaning
B. Contextual meaning
C. Phonetic meaning
D. Rhythm
Answer: B
972. “Discourse” refers to:
A. Words
B. Sentences
C. Connected extended language
D. Letters
Answer: C
973. “Genre” is:
A. Theme
B. Category of literature
C. Symbol
D. Style
Answer: B
974. “Intertextuality”
refers to:
A. Rewriting
B. Relationship between texts
C. Stanza structure
D. Grammar structure
Answer: B
975. “Trochee” example:
A. garden
B. today
C. beyond
D. afraid
Answer: A
(/–)
976. “Iamb” example:
A. delay
B. happy
C. candle
D. blanket
Answer: A
(–/)
977. “Anapest” example:
A. understand
B. table
C. window
D. people
Answer: A
(– – /)
978. “Dactyl” example:
A. beautiful
B. today
C. again
D. delight
Answer: A
(/ – –)
979. “Conceit” is:
A. Extended metaphor
B. Short metaphor
C. Parody
D. Simile
Answer: A
980. “Ode” is typically:
A. Narrative
B. Lyrical and elevated
C. Comic
D. Dramatic
Answer: B
981. “Elegy” expresses:
A. Joy
B. Mourning
C. Comedy
D. Satire
Answer: B
982. “Pastoral poem” deals
with:
A. City life
B. Rural nature
C. War
D. Religion
Answer: B
983. “Mock-epic” treats:
A. Heroic subject seriously
B. Trivial subject in grand style
C. War theme
D. Rural theme
Answer: B
984. “Epigram” is:
A. Long poem
B. Short witty poem
C. Satire
D. Parody
Answer: B
985. “Parody” imitates:
A. Serious style humorously
B. Humor seriously
C. Narrative weakly
D. Dialogue unironically
Answer: A
986. “Burlesque”
exaggerates:
A. Heroic qualities
B. Style for comic effect
C. Narrative theme
D. Character arc
Answer: B
987. “Caricature”
exaggerates:
A. Setting
B. Character traits
C. Symbols
D. Allegory
Answer: B
988. “Irony” means:
A. Literal meaning
B. Opposite meaning
C. No meaning
D. Neutral meaning
Answer: B
989. “Structural irony”
depends on:
A. Character flaws
B. Audience expectations
C. Entire narrative pattern
D. Random twists
Answer: C
990. “Tragic irony” means:
A. Hero knows truth
B. Audience knows truth
C. No one knows truth
D. Writer hides truth
Answer: B
991. “Symbol” represents:
A. Literal thing
B. Something beyond itself
C. Word in poem
D. Syllable
Answer: B
992. “Motif” means:
A. New character
B. Recurring element
C. Ending of poem
D. Title
Answer: B
993. “Theme” refers to:
A. Setting
B. Central idea
C. Speaker
D. Dialogue
Answer: B
994. “Tone” reflects:
A. Speaker’s attitude
B. Writer’s name
C. Vocabulary
D. Time period
Answer: A
995. “Mood” is created by:
A. Audience
B. Atmosphere of text
C. Writer’s age
D. Sentence length
Answer: B
996. “Narrator” is:
A. Author always
B. Voice telling the story
C. Character only
D. Audience
Answer: B
997. “First-person
narration” uses:
A. he/she
B. they
C. I/me
D. you
Answer: C
998. “Second-person
narration” uses:
A. I
B. he
C. you
D. they
Answer: C
999. “Third-person
omniscient” means narrator:
A. Knows one character
B. Knows none
C. Knows all characters’ thoughts
D. Is inside story
Answer: C
1000. “Third-person limited”
means narrator:
A. Knows all
B. Knows one character’s thoughts
C. Is protagonist
D. Is antagonist
Answer: B
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