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1.A poem that generally has meter and rhyme
A. lyric
B. free verse
C. narrative
D. lyric
2.Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
A. Masefield
B. Causley
C. Hughes
D. Masefield
3.Carl Sandburg 'Planked whitefish' contains what kind of imagery?
A. Sea scenes
B. Rural Idyll
C. War
D. Sea scenes
4.Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Paul Dunbar
C. John Greenleaf Whittier
D. Emily Dickinson
5. In 1960 'The Colossus' was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
A. Elizabeth Bishop
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Marianne Moore
D. Elizabeth Bishop
6.In his poem Kipling said 'If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '?
A. Glory
B. Ruin
C. Disaster
D. Glory
7.Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?
A. Assonance
B. Onomatopaea
C. Rhyme
D. Assonance
8.True or false: Writing predates poetry.
A. True
B. False
C. May be
D. True
9.What is the earliest surviving European poem?
A. The Homeric epic
B. The Gilgamesh epic
C. The Deluge epic
D. The Homeric epic
10.Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
A. The Epic
B. The Comic
C. The Occult
D. The Epic
11.Which among the following is not an aim of linguistics_______________?
A. To establish a theory of language
B. To study the nature of language
C. To propound stories of the origin of language
D. To establish a theory of language
12.Which among the following does not constitute the scientific nature of linguistics_____________?
A. Determination of causal relationship between facts
B. Systematic gathering and analysis of data
C. Chronological presentation of data
D. Determination of causal relationship between facts
13.__________________________is the study of how the mentally represented grammar of language is employed in the production and comprehension of speech?
A. Neuron__linguistics
B. Psycho__linguistics
C. Socio__linguistics
D. Neuron__linguistics
14.A person who can use more than two languages_______________?
A. Multilingual
B. Bilingual
C. Poly__lingual
D. Multilingual
15.______________refers to the linguistic norm specific to a geographical area, social class or status affecting mutual intelligibility?\
A. Dialect
B. Register
C. Idiolect
D. Dialect
16.A person who has the ability to use only one language is called__________?
A. Monologal
B. . Monolingual
C. Monologue
D. Monologal
17.A collection of similar Idiolect make up ______________?
A. Dialect
B. Register
C. Idiolects
D. Dialect
18.Which among the following implies the underlying rules governing the combination and organization of the elements of language ?
A. Parole
B. Language
C. Competence
D. Parole
19.Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Saussure’s Langue and Parole ?
A. Leonard bloom Filed.
B. Charles Sanders Pierce
C. Noam Chomsky
D. Leonard bloom Filed.
20.Who introduced in linguistics the concept of Langue and Parole ?
A. Noam Chomsky
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Charles Sanders Pierce
D. Noam Chomsky
21.The term semiotics was introduced by______________?
A. Charles Sanders Pierce
B. Noam Chomsky
C. Ferdinand de sauddure
D. Charles Sanders Pierce
22.The type of study which focus on the analysis of the systematic interrelation of the elements of a single language at a particular time is called________________?
A. Synchronic
B. Semiotic
C. Diachronic
D. Synchronic
23.There is no positive relationship between a speech and sounD. This property of language is referred to as____________ ?
A. Arbitrariness.
B. Displacement
C. Recursiveness
D. Arbitrariness.
24.It is possible to write down spoken language and read aloud the written material. This property of language is called______________ ?
A. Duality of structure
B. Displacement
C. Recursiveness
D. Duality of structure
25.Using a finite set of rules a speaker can produce innumerable grammatical utterances. This property of language is called______________?
A. Displacement
B. Recursiveness
C. Duality of structure
D. Displacement
26.Firstly, to which of these language groups does English belong?
A. Baltic
B. Romance
C. Germanic
D. Baltic
27.In the sentence 'I took my big brown cat to the vet yesterday', which of the following does not appear?
A. Adjective
B. Preposition
C. Adverb
D. Adjective
28.What is defined as 'the study of sentence structure'?
A. Morphology
B. Semantics
C. Syntax
D. Morphology
29.Three of these languages do not have definite articles. Which one does have a structure that serves the purpose of a definite article?
A. Russian
B. Finnish
C. Latin
D. Russian
30.In dialectology, what is the line on a map called which divides areas with different forms of a word?
A. Isobar
B. Isogloss--
C. Isotherm
D. Isobar
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