What is NOT a function of an informal text?

• To Entertaine

• To be linguistically innovative

• To inform

• To instruct

ARC and OAR is the acronym used for which type of patterning?

• Morphological Patterning

• Semantic Patterning

• Phonological Patterning

• Syntactic Patterning

Alliteration, consonance and assonance all involve a repetition of sounds either of consonants or vowels. Chose the example of assonance below.

• The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain

• A sailor went to sea, sea, sea.

• I was running to find my funny sunnies

• Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers

'Morphological patterning is connected with word formation processes such as conversion and other creative word formations as discussed in chapter 2 (orange book). Morphological patterning involves the repeated presence of words made by one or more of these word formation processes.'

Fridge and Exam are examples of what feature?

• Shortening

• Initialism

• Archaism

• Borrowing

There are two types of lexical patterning. They are:

Parallelism is when two or more phrases, clauses or sentences are structurally similar and appear near each other in order to raise the discourse's appeal. What patterning is this?

• Semantic Patterning

• Lexical Patterning

• Phonological Patterning

• Syntactic Patterning

LA SIMP OPA was last year's acronym for Semantic Patterning. Which of the following is NOT a feature of Semantic patterning?

• Simile & Metaphor

• Personification and Animation

• Lexical Ambiguity

• Alliteration

That went down like a "lead balloon" is an example of which semantic device?

• Oxymoron

• Pun

• Simile

• Metaphor

This feature encapsulates the natural occurrence between comfortable speakers where one easily yields the floor to another without having to cease talking.

• Interrogative tags

• Closing

• Overlapping speech

• Adjacency pairs

Volume, Pitch, Intonation, Stress and Tempo are called what type of features?