1. Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?

a. Oxymoron
b. Metonymy
c. Alliteration
d. Hyperbole

2. What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?

a. Prosody
b. Allegory
c. Scansion
d. Assonance

3. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

a. No difference.
b. A simile is more descriptive.
c. A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn't.
d. A simile must use animals in the comparison.

4. Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?

a. Antony and Cleopatra
b Murder in the Cathedral
c. Macbeth
d. Hamlet

5. Which is not a poetry form?

a. epic
b. tale
c. ballad
d. sonnet

6. Which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?

a. Troilus and criseyde
b. House of fame
c. The canterbury tales
d. Parliament of fowls.
7. Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?
a. The Normans
b. The Geats
c. The Celts
d. The Anglo-Saxons

8. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?
a. The short story
b. The heroic epic
c. The morality play
d. The limerick

9. "Renaissance" is a:
a. French word
b. Italian word
c. Greek word
d. Spanish word

10. What is Faerie Queene:

a. An allegory
b. An epic
c. A ballad
d. A sonnet

11. ‘There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”

The line given above occurs in
a. Hamlet
b. Henry IV
c. The Tempest
d. Twelfth Night

12. Vanity Fair is a novel by?

a. Jane Austen
b. Charles Dickens
c. W. M. Thackeray
d. Thomas Hardy
13. The study of language in relation to society is called_________.
a. Socialogy of a language
b. Societal linguistics
c. Sociolinguistics
d. All of these

14. You have to leave your shoes________ the door when you enter the house.
a. In
b. Over
c. To
d. By

15. There are ________ phonemes in standard variety of English.

a. 43
b. 44
c. 47
d. 48

16. /p/, /b/ are ________ sounds with respect to place of articulation.
a. Fricatives
b. Bilabial
c. Labio-Dental
d. Alveolar

17. The defining property of language that there is no ‘natural’ (naturally motivated) connection
between a linguistic form and its meaning is called
a. arbitrariness.
b.discreteness
c.displacement
d. productivity

18 ____________ is the study of speaker’s intended meaning.

a. Linguistics
b. Semantics
c. Sociolinguistics
d. Pragmatics

19. Which of the maxims suggested by Grice states that a participant of a conversation should
not say something that one believes to be false or for which one lacks evidence?
 a. Maxim of Quantity
b. Maxim of Quality
c. Maxim of Relation
d. Maxim of Manner

20. Which of the following grammatical categories is not typically expressed in the verb in
English?
a. gender
b. number
c. tense
d. voice

21. How is the phoneme marked?

a. /k/
b. {k}
c. <k>
d. [k]

22. According to generative grammar, what is it that makes sentences like Someone stole my
bicycle and My bicycle was stolen closely related?
a. deep structure
b. passive structure
c. phrase structure
d. surface structure

23. What is correct theory relevant to following sentence?

They hypothesized that when children imitated the language produced by those around
them.

a. Behaviorist
b. Innatist
c. Interactional/developmental perspective.
d. cognitive psychology

24. What hypothesis relates that humans are genetically programmed to acquire certain kinds of
knowledge and skill at specific time in life?
a. environment period hypothesis
b. critical period hypothesis
c. developmental period hypothesis
d. interaction period hypothesis
25. The segmentation of an activity in grammar is called_________.

a. Tense
b. Aspect
c. Modality
d. Mode