Linguistic terms

What is the term for the positive and negative associations of a word?

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Metaphor

• Syntax

Which term refers to the literal definition of a word as found in a dictionary?

• Hermeneutics

• Semiotics

• Denotation

• Metonym

What is the study of interpretation, especially of biblical texts, literature, and philosophical texts?

• Syntax

• Hermeneutics

• Paradigm

• Syntagm

What term describes the interconnection between works through quotations, allusion, pastiche, and parody?

• Intertextuality

• Metonym

• Simile

• Syntax

Which figure of speech is used to make a comparison between two different things by stating something is something else?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Syntax

• Syntagm

What is the term for a word or expression used as a substitute for a concept closely linked to it?

• Metonym

• Paradigm

• Semiotics

• Syntax

Which term refers to a frame of reference, framework, pattern, model, or typical examples used for understanding or explaining something in a particular subject?

• Syntax

• Paradigm

• Syntagm

• Connotation

What is the study into how meaning of signs and symbols is created and communicated?

• Semiotics

• Syntax

• Hermeneutics

• Intertextuality

Which term describes a comparison between two different things using 'like' or 'as'?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Syntax

• Syntagm

What is the set of linguistic forms that are in a sequential relationship to one another and operate together to create meaning?

• Syntax

• Syntagm

• Semiotics

• Paradigm