Majorship-English

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Question list

1. Which of the following terms describes the subject matter, style, tone and attitude of literature of ancient Greek and Rome?

Classicism

2. Plato’s idea about the art of poetry is expressed in treatise _________?

Ion

3. He believes that reality exists when the thing or object or emotion is lasting.

Plato

4. It is a narrative technique utilized by Homer and Sophocles in their plot scheme.

media res

5. Longinus advanced his theory on poetry in which writings?

On The Sublime

6. He is a Spanish author who wrote the novel “Don Quixote”.

Miguel de Cervantes

7. The following taboo phrases were used by which writer? “I fart at thee”, “shit on your head’, “dirty bastard”

Ben Johnson

8. He believes that the poet is an inventor for a better world.

John Dryden

9. He said that a man is a product of his choices.

Jean Paul Sartre

10. It is the movement in literature criticizing the marginalization of women and gender equality.

Feminism

11. It is a criticism that uses personal judgement.

Reader’s Response

12. It is the consequence of pity and fear among the spectators.

catharsis

13. It is the consequence of a mistake in judgment.

suffering

14. Which among the following does not belong to Aristotle’s view on plot?

The plot should have a twist at the end.

15. When is a poem good according to Longinus?

If it affects the reader through nobility of diction and thought.

16. Who is presented as the most honest and moral of Chaucer’s pilgrims?

The Parson

17. Out of the following four pilgrims, which is the most corrupt?

The Pardoner

18. In Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”, what does the sea associate?

spiritual mystery, death and rebirth

19. He is an essayist who wrote against the rigidity of Puritanism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. The title alludes to Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s Odyssey. Name the author of Ulysses.

James Joyce

21. He is a king who ruled with the help of the knights of the round table.

King Arthur

22. It is focusing on the outstanding feature of a person.

Realism

23. Name the book which opens with the line ‘All children, except one grew up’?

Peter Pan

24. She is an American writer who made herself known for her extreme individualism in poetry.

Emily Dickinson

25. A philosophy advocating that man is a product of freedom.

Existentialism

26. It is undoubtedly the simplest way of fleshing out the theme.

allegory

27. It is the study of the principles and rules for constructing sentences in natural languages.

Syntax

28. Oliver Cromwell belong to what party?

round head

29. It refers to making art and literature accessible to the masses.

Popularization

30. The play “Hamlet” is a ______.

feminist

31. It is also called The Apocalypse in Bible.

Revelations

32. She was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children’s poems.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

33. The belief that the meaning or value of work may be determined by the author’s intention.

Intentional Fallacy

34. What work contains these lines: “There hurls in at the hall-door an unknown rider . . .Half a giant on earth I hold him to be.”

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

35. It is the repetition of words at the beginnings of neighbor clauses.

anaphora

36. This is used to describe an expression that co-refers with a latter expression.

catapora

37. The repeated words with the same text.

recurrence

38. A mark or series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of some parts.

ellipses

39. Which of the following is a work of SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS?

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

40. A restatement of a text or passages.

paraphrase

41. All of these statements are true except one.

“A Picture in the Cellar” discusses about of keeping memoirs.

42. He is an essayist exemplified Elizabethan ideal of intellectual versatility in the 17th Century.

Francis Bacon

43. Which of these statements is false?

Next to Iliad, Mahabharata is the world’s longest epic.

44. It carrying the sense of one line of verse over the next line without a pause.

enjambment

45. He is one of the exceptional writer in Philippine Literature and also known as Quijano De Manila.

Nick Joaquin

46. It is a dramatic expression of Zen Buddhism viewed by feudal lords.

Noh Play

47. He is a Chinese dramatic playwright who wrote “The West Chamber”.

Wang Shifu

48. Which novel, eventually published in 1945, was rejected by a New York publisher stating ‘it is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA’?

Animal Farm

49. This approach attempts to explain the how’s and why’s of human action and can exist side by side with any other critical method of interpretation.

Psychoanalytic Criticism

50. He translated “The Fall of Princes” from the French.

John Lydgate

51. The study and classification of language based on how morphemes create words is called _________?

Semantics

52. How many Inflectional Morphemes are there in English?

53. The study and classification of language based on how morphemes create words is called __________?

Morphological Typology

54. These words are created by adding affixes to roots.

Compound Words

55. It involves snipping a part of a word to create a shortened form.

Clipping

56. The meaningful units of language are called ____________?

morpheme

57. Words formed from the first letter or letters of more than one words is called _________?

Acronyms

58. Which one is NOT an open class of words?

pronoun

59. It is a relatively recently devised word/phrase that has not been accepted into mainstream usage.

Neologism

60. It refers to the process of creating a new lexeme by removing actual or supposed affixes.

Back Formation

61. It is a morpheme that only appears as part of a larger word and the one that can stand alone.

Bound Morpheme

62. It can function independently as words and can appear with other lexemes.

Free Morpheme

63. It is the study of how languages change over time and the relationship among different languages.

Historical Linguistics

64. It is a branch of linguistics that study of the cognitive processes and representations underlying language use.

Psycholinguistics

65. It is the study of the origin and subsequent development of language by the human species.

Evolutionary Linguistics

66. A branch o linguistics that study of natural as well as human‑taught communication systems in animals, compared to human language.

Biolinguistics

67. A branch of linguistics which studies style in a scientific and systematic way concerning the manners or linguistic features of different varieties of language at different levels.

Stylistics

68. The following choices is a linguistic description except one. Which is it?

level of lexis

69. It studies the choices of specific lexical items in a text, their distribution in relation to one another, and their meanings.

Lexicology

70. It concentrating on the unique features of various literary works.

Literary Stylistics

71. It concentrates on the general features of various types of language used.

General Stylistics

72. Which one of these sentences below is simple sentence?

We will be at the restaurant in twenty minutes.

73. Which of the following is not a complex sentence?

The score was thirty-six to nothing; obviously there was little hope that the home team could win.

74. What process of words was used in the word brunch?

Blending

75. When a teacher wants to emphasize the learners’ needs to identify why they are writing and for whom, he/she can use the _________.

communicative writing approach

76. A communicative competence area which is concern is one knowing how to use and respond to language appropriately, given the setting, the topic, and the relationship among the people communicating.

Sociolinguistic Competence

77. This concept equates the idea of a “learning task” to a language learning technique in itself.

Task-Based Approach

78. Cognitive skills necessary for the construction and understanding of meaningful sequences of words.

Linguistic Competence

79. Modern descriptive linguistics is based on structural approach to language.

Chomsky

80. Which statement is true?

There are two components which contributes to language acquisition, these are universal grammar and the environment.

81. Which of the following are places of articulation?

dental

82. Which of the following statements are correct?

The White House is a metonym of The United States Government

83. Which of the following is a common linguistic problem for someone learning a second language?

phonology

84. Egyptian hieroglyphics can best be characterized as

a combination of ideographic elements with symbols representing linguistic sounds

85. Which of these sections of the brain plays an important part in language production/comprehension?

Broca's area

86. Mark those of the examples below which are minimal pairs in English

thick /sick

87. Which one of the following demonstrates a sentence combining with a subordinator?

Although she wanted to go, she still had work to do.

88. Positive transfer occurs when:

A student finds similar elements in two different ideas.

89. It refers to the concept that there is a correct and an incorrect way to speak, write or sign is called _________.

Descriptive Grammar or Syntax

90. It refers to the mostly subconscious rules of a language that one uses to combine smaller units into sentence.

Prescriptive Grammar or Syntax

91. A word that names a person, a living thing, an object, etc.

noun

92. Words used to represent a noun is called ____________.

pronoun

93. A word connecting words, clauses or sentences and a simultaneous occurrence of events.

conjunction

94. A part of speech that expresses an action, a process state or condition or mode of being.

verb

95. A system of rules for speaking and in writing of language.

grammar

96. It refers to spelling; that is, the relationship between phonemes and graphemes in a language.

orthography

97. It is a writing system where the written graphemes correspond to phonemes.

Phonemic Orthography

98. __________ are sentence which are very long but it is needed to divided.

run-on

99. Which of the following is NOT an elements of the fields of orthography?

pronunciation

100

100. It is a branch of linguistic analysis that consists of the study of phonemes and often includes a study of their allophone.

Phonemics

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Question list

1. Which of the following terms describes the subject matter, style, tone and attitude of literature of ancient Greek and Rome?

Classicism

2. Plato’s idea about the art of poetry is expressed in treatise _________?

Ion

3. He believes that reality exists when the thing or object or emotion is lasting.

Plato

4. It is a narrative technique utilized by Homer and Sophocles in their plot scheme.

media res

5. Longinus advanced his theory on poetry in which writings?

On The Sublime

6. He is a Spanish author who wrote the novel “Don Quixote”.

Miguel de Cervantes

7. The following taboo phrases were used by which writer? “I fart at thee”, “shit on your head’, “dirty bastard”

Ben Johnson

8. He believes that the poet is an inventor for a better world.

John Dryden

9. He said that a man is a product of his choices.

Jean Paul Sartre

10. It is the movement in literature criticizing the marginalization of women and gender equality.

Feminism

11. It is a criticism that uses personal judgement.

Reader’s Response

12. It is the consequence of pity and fear among the spectators.

catharsis

13. It is the consequence of a mistake in judgment.

suffering

14. Which among the following does not belong to Aristotle’s view on plot?

The plot should have a twist at the end.

15. When is a poem good according to Longinus?

If it affects the reader through nobility of diction and thought.

16. Who is presented as the most honest and moral of Chaucer’s pilgrims?

The Parson

17. Out of the following four pilgrims, which is the most corrupt?

The Pardoner

18. In Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”, what does the sea associate?

spiritual mystery, death and rebirth

19. He is an essayist who wrote against the rigidity of Puritanism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. The title alludes to Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s Odyssey. Name the author of Ulysses.

James Joyce

21. He is a king who ruled with the help of the knights of the round table.

King Arthur

22. It is focusing on the outstanding feature of a person.

Realism

23. Name the book which opens with the line ‘All children, except one grew up’?

Peter Pan

24. She is an American writer who made herself known for her extreme individualism in poetry.

Emily Dickinson

25. A philosophy advocating that man is a product of freedom.

Existentialism

26. It is undoubtedly the simplest way of fleshing out the theme.

allegory

27. It is the study of the principles and rules for constructing sentences in natural languages.

Syntax

28. Oliver Cromwell belong to what party?

round head

29. It refers to making art and literature accessible to the masses.

Popularization

30. The play “Hamlet” is a ______.

feminist

31. It is also called The Apocalypse in Bible.

Revelations

32. She was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children’s poems.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

33. The belief that the meaning or value of work may be determined by the author’s intention.

Intentional Fallacy

34. What work contains these lines: “There hurls in at the hall-door an unknown rider . . .Half a giant on earth I hold him to be.”

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

35. It is the repetition of words at the beginnings of neighbor clauses.

anaphora

36. This is used to describe an expression that co-refers with a latter expression.

catapora

37. The repeated words with the same text.

recurrence

38. A mark or series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of some parts.

ellipses

39. Which of the following is a work of SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS?

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

40. A restatement of a text or passages.

paraphrase

41. All of these statements are true except one.

“A Picture in the Cellar” discusses about of keeping memoirs.

42. He is an essayist exemplified Elizabethan ideal of intellectual versatility in the 17th Century.

Francis Bacon

43. Which of these statements is false?

Next to Iliad, Mahabharata is the world’s longest epic.

44. It carrying the sense of one line of verse over the next line without a pause.

enjambment

45. He is one of the exceptional writer in Philippine Literature and also known as Quijano De Manila.

Nick Joaquin

46. It is a dramatic expression of Zen Buddhism viewed by feudal lords.

Noh Play

47. He is a Chinese dramatic playwright who wrote “The West Chamber”.

Wang Shifu

48. Which novel, eventually published in 1945, was rejected by a New York publisher stating ‘it is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA’?

Animal Farm

49. This approach attempts to explain the how’s and why’s of human action and can exist side by side with any other critical method of interpretation.

Psychoanalytic Criticism

50. He translated “The Fall of Princes” from the French.

John Lydgate

51. The study and classification of language based on how morphemes create words is called _________?

Semantics

52. How many Inflectional Morphemes are there in English?

53. The study and classification of language based on how morphemes create words is called __________?

Morphological Typology

54. These words are created by adding affixes to roots.

Compound Words

55. It involves snipping a part of a word to create a shortened form.

Clipping

56. The meaningful units of language are called ____________?

morpheme

57. Words formed from the first letter or letters of more than one words is called _________?

Acronyms

58. Which one is NOT an open class of words?

pronoun

59. It is a relatively recently devised word/phrase that has not been accepted into mainstream usage.

Neologism

60. It refers to the process of creating a new lexeme by removing actual or supposed affixes.

Back Formation

61. It is a morpheme that only appears as part of a larger word and the one that can stand alone.

Bound Morpheme

62. It can function independently as words and can appear with other lexemes.

Free Morpheme

63. It is the study of how languages change over time and the relationship among different languages.

Historical Linguistics

64. It is a branch of linguistics that study of the cognitive processes and representations underlying language use.

Psycholinguistics

65. It is the study of the origin and subsequent development of language by the human species.

Evolutionary Linguistics

66. A branch o linguistics that study of natural as well as human‑taught communication systems in animals, compared to human language.

Biolinguistics

67. A branch of linguistics which studies style in a scientific and systematic way concerning the manners or linguistic features of different varieties of language at different levels.

Stylistics

68. The following choices is a linguistic description except one. Which is it?

level of lexis

69. It studies the choices of specific lexical items in a text, their distribution in relation to one another, and their meanings.

Lexicology

70. It concentrating on the unique features of various literary works.

Literary Stylistics

71. It concentrates on the general features of various types of language used.

General Stylistics

72. Which one of these sentences below is simple sentence?

We will be at the restaurant in twenty minutes.

73. Which of the following is not a complex sentence?

The score was thirty-six to nothing; obviously there was little hope that the home team could win.

74. What process of words was used in the word brunch?

Blending

75. When a teacher wants to emphasize the learners’ needs to identify why they are writing and for whom, he/she can use the _________.

communicative writing approach

Sociolinguistic Competence

77. This concept equates the idea of a “learning task” to a language learning technique in itself.

Task-Based Approach

78. Cognitive skills necessary for the construction and understanding of meaningful sequences of words.

Linguistic Competence

79. Modern descriptive linguistics is based on structural approach to language.

Chomsky

80. Which statement is true?

There are two components which contributes to language acquisition, these are universal grammar and the environment.

81. Which of the following are places of articulation?

dental

82. Which of the following statements are correct?

The White House is a metonym of The United States Government

83. Which of the following is a common linguistic problem for someone learning a second language?

phonology

84. Egyptian hieroglyphics can best be characterized as

a combination of ideographic elements with symbols representing linguistic sounds

85. Which of these sections of the brain plays an important part in language production/comprehension?

Broca's area

86. Mark those of the examples below which are minimal pairs in English

thick /sick

87. Which one of the following demonstrates a sentence combining with a subordinator?

Although she wanted to go, she still had work to do.

88. Positive transfer occurs when:

A student finds similar elements in two different ideas.

89. It refers to the concept that there is a correct and an incorrect way to speak, write or sign is called _________.

Descriptive Grammar or Syntax

90. It refers to the mostly subconscious rules of a language that one uses to combine smaller units into sentence.

Prescriptive Grammar or Syntax

91. A word that names a person, a living thing, an object, etc.

noun

92. Words used to represent a noun is called ____________.

pronoun

93. A word connecting words, clauses or sentences and a simultaneous occurrence of events.

conjunction

94. A part of speech that expresses an action, a process state or condition or mode of being.

verb

95. A system of rules for speaking and in writing of language.

grammar

96. It refers to spelling; that is, the relationship between phonemes and graphemes in a language.

orthography

97. It is a writing system where the written graphemes correspond to phonemes.

Phonemic Orthography

98. __________ are sentence which are very long but it is needed to divided.

run-on

99. Which of the following is NOT an elements of the fields of orthography?

pronunciation

100

100. It is a branch of linguistic analysis that consists of the study of phonemes and often includes a study of their allophone.

Phonemics