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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

6861. ____________is the process by which new words are coined by combining the segments of two different words ?
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A. Portmanteau

B. Clipping

C. Metanalysis

D. Onomatopoeia

6862. Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?
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A. Gerund

B. None of the above

C. Concord

D. Phrase structure

6863. Transformational-generative grammar is a broad theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speakers linguistic capabilities, was developed by_________?
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A. Leon Battista Alberti

B. Ferdenand De Sassure

C. Noam Chomsky

D. Enoch Powell

6864. The clear /l/ and the dark /l/ may be considered to be the ______________________of the same phoneme /l/?
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A. Morpheme variants

B. Allophones

C. Allomorphs

D. Minimal pairs

6865. According to the height to which the tongue is raised, vowels can be classified into __________?
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A. Front vowels & back vowels

B. High vowels & low vowels

C. Round vowels & unrounded vowels

D. Tense vowels &lax vowels

6866. The Syntactic Structures is a book written by Noam Choamsky in__________?
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A. 1960

B. 1958

C. 1957

D. 1959

6867. The classification of vowels into high vowels and low vowels is based on ____________?
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A. The height to which the tongue is raised

B. The part of the tongue that is raised

C. All the abovE.

D. The position of the lips

6868. Who argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species ?
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A. Albert Chomsky

B. Noah Webster

C. Ferdenand de Sassure

D. Noam Chomsky

6869. A term which refers to the sequential characteristics of language. When we construct WORDS and SENTENCES we follow a certain order in arranging the individual items.
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A. N. O. T

B. Synergy

C. Performance

D. Syntagmatic

6870. The study of signs is termed as_________?
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A. Semantics

B. Semiotics

C. Parole

D. Paradigmatic

6871. Father of modern linguistics is ________?
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A. Noam Chomsky

B. Ferdenand De Sassure

C. None of these

D. Both A and B

6872. Words such as edit and house__keep are instances of ____________?
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A. Compounding

B. Portmanteau

C. Derivation

D. Backformation

6873. Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?
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A. To predict all and the only possible grammatical sentences of a language

B. To account by its rules for the infinite sentences of a language

C. All the above.

D. To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

6874. Phonemes which effect meaning change in the same linguistic environment are said to be in ____________?
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A. None of the abovE.

B. Complementary distribution

C. Contrastive distribution

D. Non__contrastive distribution

6875. ____________refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech?
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A. Stress

B. Intonation

C. JuncturE.

D. Pitch

6876. The ing in sleeping is an example of ____________?
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A. None of these

B. Bound morpheme

C. A free morpheme

D. Free variation

6877. The substitution of the aspirated /k/ for the un__aspirated /k/ in the word sky does not alter the meaning of the worD. It is an instance of ______________ ?
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A. Complementary distribution

B. Non__complementary distribution

C. Contrastive distribution

D. None of the above

6878. A term introduced by the linguist SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given time
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A. N. O. T

B. Paradigmatic

C. Synchrony

D. Diachrony

6879. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in commands_____________?
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A. The falling

B. The fall__rise

C. The rising

D. None of the above

6880. ______________________is used to designate words pronounced differently though identically?
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A. Homophones

B. Allophones

C. Homonyms

D. Homographs

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