Adjectives that are presented in the most extreme value and usually ending with '-est'.
One adjective relating to another and usually ending in '-ier'.
A command shown within a sentence.
7. What is an adjacency pair?
Two words that are spelt different, yet sound exactly the same.
When two speakers say the same thing at the same time.
A response which depends on and results from the previous utterance.
An organised and co-ordinated manner in the way in which the speakers speak.
8. Intonation, stress and pitch are examples of what features?
Phonological features.
Prosodic features.
Paralinguistic features.
9. Which of the following is an example of a tag question?
'Is it warm?'
'It's warm, isn't it?'
'Will it get warmer soon?'
'When was the last time it was this warm? When shall we go out?'
10. What is an ellipsis?
Representation of a significant pause.
Omission of a vowel/syllable in the pronunciation of a word.
Omission of vowel at the end of the word when the next word begins with a vowel.
One speaker speaking over another, interuppting them.
11. What is the difference between intonation and pitch?
Intonation is the variance in the speaker's voice and pitch refers to the actual tone.
Pitch refers to the general variance in the speaker's voice and intonation refers to the actual tone.
Intonation refers to the actual sound of the word.
12. What is the use of contradictory words in a phrase known as?
Collocations.
Antithesis.
Oxymoron.
Juxtaposition.
13. What is it called when two words are connected with a hyphen?
Compound Words.
Pastiche.
Portmanteau.
Clipping.
14. When a speaker is directly referred to, what is it called?
A prosodic feature.
Received Pronunciation.
A non-fluency feature.
Idiolect.
15. What is a word with 2/+ more syllables called?
Polysyllabic lexis.
Monosyllabic lexis.
16. What is an enlarged example extracted from a text called?
Sub-heading.
Caption.
Grab quote.
Headline.
17. What is the difference between euphemism and dysphemism?
Euphemism is putting something socially unacceptable in a polite manner, whereas dysphemism is not socially acceptable and is something said in an innapropriate manner.
Euphemism is extremely unacceptable in the society, for example, swear words. Dysphemism is a polite manner of speech.
Euphemism is not socially acceptable and is something said in an innapropriate manner, whereas, dysphemism is putting something socially unacceptable in a polite manner.
Euphemism is the literal meaning of words and dysphemism is when a word can have a double meaning behind it.
18. What is a hypophora?
An answer immediately following a rhetorical question.
Over-exaggeration of something.
A word which could have different multiple meanings.
Informal language.
19. What is an 'indirect reference' to something called?
Allusion.
Acronym.
Analogy.
Metaphor.
Semantic.
20. What is rhetoric?
Contrasting language.
Persuasive language.
A question which compels the reader to consider the answer.
