English Language Quiz

What is the term for the following rhetorical feature? “The days ahead will be filled with blood, sweat and tears.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Triadic structure

What is the term for the technique used where the reader or audience is addressed directly as if they are a friend?

• Synthetic personalisation

• Pronoun

• Second person narrative

• Inclusive language

What types of sentence is this? “A woman with red hair, wearing a long black evening dress, walked slowly across the restaurant to the bar.”

• Simple sentence

• Compound sentence

• Complex sentence

• Compound-complex sentence

What is the term for expressions such as: passed away, friendly fire, ethnic cleansing?

• Metaphor

• Euphemism

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

What term describes these two adjectives: brave/courageous?

• Synonyms

• Antonyms

• Homophones

• Homonyms

When speakers say “um” or “er” or “you know” & “I mean”, what are these called?

• Fillers

• Conjunctions

• Interjections

• Pronouns

What is it called when a speaker adapts their speech to be more like the person they’re talking to?

• Convergence

• Divergence

• Code-switching

• Register

What is the term used by linguists for small talk?

• Phatic communication

• Pragmatic communication

• Semantic communication

• Syntactic communication

What are the three main theoretical approaches to interpreting gendered discourse?

What are Grice’s four maxims?

• Quantity, Quality, Relation, Manner
• Quantity, qualification, revelation, tone

• Tone, repetition, politness, volume

• Volume, convergence, allowance, acceptance