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Practise multiple-choice questions from english literature for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

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

6821. Words such as UNESCO and RADAR are instances of ____________?
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A. Conversion

B. Acronym

C. Re__duplicates

D. Compounding

6822. The classification of vowels into close vowels and open vowels is based on ________________?
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A. All the above.

B. The position of the lips

C. The height to which the tongue is raised

D. The part of the tongue that is raised

6823. The phonemes which do not occur in the same linguistic environment and which when occur so, do not bring about a change in meaning are said to be in __________?
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A. None of the abovE.

B. Non__complementary distribution

C. Contrastive distribution

D. Complementary distribution

6824. The en in strengthen is a __________?
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A. An adjective forming morpheme

B. Possessive morpheme

C. Verb forming morpheme

D. Plural morpheme

6825. The older term used to designate the study of languages is____________?
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A. Philology

B. Semiology

C. Haplology

D. Phonology

6826. The s in she sings well is ____________?
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A. An adjective forming morpheme

B. Morpheme signaling third person singular.

C. Plural morpheme

D. Possessive morpheme

6827. ______________________is a processes of word formation by which new words are formed by attaching prefixes or suffixes to the base form?
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A. Portmanteau

B. Derivation

C. Compounding

D. Backformation

6828. According to the position of lips vowels can be divided into__________?
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A. Tense vowels &lax vowels

B. Round vowels & unrounded vowels

C. High vowels & low vowels

D. Front vowels & back vowels

6829. ______________is concerned with the selection and organization of speech sounds in a language?
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A. Morphology

B. Semantics

C. Phonology

D. Syntax

6830. The initial /l/ and the final /l/ in the word little are___________?
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A. Morpheme variants

B. Allophones

C. Minimal pairs

D. Allomorphs

6831. In transformational Generative Grammar, the Generative means______________?
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A. to produce

B. to predict

C. All the above

D. to develop

6832. Words with more than three syllables are called __________words?
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A. Multisyllabic

B. Try syllabic

C. Disyllabic

D. Polysyllabic

6833. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in polite requests________________?
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A. The rising

B. The fall__rise

C. The falling

D. None of the above

6834. The /t/ in little is an instance of __________________?
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A. Alveolar plosion

B. Nasal plosion

C. Incomplete plosion.

D. Lateral plosion

6835. ______________________is a processes of word formation wherein new words are coined by combining the segments of two different existing words?
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A. Derivation

B. Compounding

C. Portmanteau

D. Backformation.

6836. Syllables in which the consonant functions as nucleus are called________?
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A. None of the above

B. Suffixes

C. Sibilants

D. Syllabic consonants

6837. Which of the following patterns of intonation, is used to indicate that the speaker implies things which are not explicitly expressed____________?
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A. None of the above

B. The falling

C. The rising

D. The fall__rise

6838. Which among the following pairs are Alveolar plosives ?
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A. /m/ & /v/

B. /p/ & /b/

C. /k/ & /g/

D. /t/ &/d/

6839. The /p/ in top__most is a ______________?
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A. Incomplete plosion.

B. Nasal plosion

C. Alveolar plosion

D. Bilabial plosion

6840. The initial sounds in the words ship, church and judge; are examples for__________?
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A. Bilabial

B. Velar

C. Palatal

D. Palato__alveolar

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