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english literature Mcqs

1. introduction to literary theory 2. miscellaneous literature 3. famous playwright poet and others 4. introduction to literary studies 5. cultural and literary in modernity 6. ages era period 7. cultural and literary english renaissance 8. modern poetry and poetics 9. medieval literature and culture 10. african american literature 11. the gothic novel 12. american literature 13. language and linguistics 14. english romantic poetry 15. literary theory and criticism 16. cultural and literary 18th 19th centuries

6801. According to the part of the tongue that is raised, vowels can be classified into__________?
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A. Round vowels & unrounded vowels

B. High vowels & low vowels

C. Front vowels & back vowels

D. Tense vowels &lax vowels

6802. There are ______ vowel sounds in English IPA.
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A. 21

B. 22

C. 19

D. 20

6803. The classification of vowels into half__high vowels and half__low vowels is based on ________________?
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A. All the abovE.

B. The height to which the tongue is raised

C. The position of the lips

D. The part of the tongue that is raised

6804. Chomsky developed Transformational-Generative Grammar in________?
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A. 1951

B. 1950

C. 1953

D. 1952

6805. A person who can use more than two languages_______________?
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A. Multilingual

B. Bilingual

C. Poly__langual

D. Poly__lingual

6806. ________ is a unit of speech which is at a level higher than the speech sound or phoneme ?
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A. Syllable

B. Pitch.

C. Intonation

D. Stress

6807. Who introduced in linguistics the concept of Langue and Parole ?
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A. Charles Sanders Pierce

B. Edward Sapir

C. Ferdinand de Saussure

D. Noam Chomsky

6808. The /d/ in middle is an instance of __________________?
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A. Nasal plosion

B. Lateral plosion

C. Incomplete plosion.

D. Alveolar plosion

6809. The consonants /j/ and /w/ are called__________?
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A. Sibilants

B. Trills.

C. Semi__vowels

D. Laterals

6810. Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed by native users of a language which enables them to speak and understand their language fluently was introduced by________?
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A. Noam Chomsky

B. None of these

C. Sassure

D. Enoch Powel

6811. A collection of similar Idiolect make up ______________?
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A. Dialect

B. Slang

C. Idiolects

D. Register

6812. The final /n/ in the words sudden and mutton are __________________?
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A. Suffixes

B. Syllabic consonants

C. None of the above

D. Sibilants

6813. ______________is the scientific study of language ?
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A. linguistics

B. Phonology

C. Philology

D. Phonetics

6814. _____________________is a processes of word formation whereby new words are formed by subtracting a root by deleting final syllable which is misunderstood as a suffix?
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A. Backformation.

B. Derivation

C. Compounding

D. Portmanteau

6815. Morphology is the branch of linguistics which deals with
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A. The study of the structure of sounds and symbols.

6816. Words composed of two or more elements that are identical or slightly different are called____________?
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A. Conversion

B. Compounding

C. Re__duplicates

D. Acronym

6817. The special features which affect speech sounds such as stress, pitch intonation and juncture are called ______________?
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A. Secondary phonemes

B. All the above.

C. Supra__segmental phonemes

D. Prosodic features

6818. In the pronunciation of the word ink the alveolar /n/ becoming a velar sound is an instance of ____________?
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A. Progressive

B. None of the above

C. Reciprocal

D. Regressive

6819. In which of the following words, is the sound /k/ aspirated ?
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A. Kill

B. Skill

C. Skit

D. Skin

6820. The /k/ in kill and skill are ________________?
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A. Morpheme variants

B. Minimal pairs

C. Allophones

D. Allomorphs

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