English Language Terms on the Fast Exam

The person/people reading/listening to the language are called?

• Text receiver

• Audience

• Reader

• Listeners

Q. 

Emotive language is words that cause a reader to feel a certain _______?

• Emotion

• Way

• Belief

• Viewpoint

Q. The term used in linguistic analysis to discuss word structure is:

• Semantics

• Morphology

• Graphology

• Pragmatics

Which terms best describe:

word choices & group of words relating to a particular topic:

• lexis & subject-specific lexis

• deixis & subject-specific deixis

• jargon & field related jargon

• conversational maxims

Q. 

informal language/slang should be described as:

• Informal

• Conversational

• Regional

• Colloquial

What best describes a monologue?

• a person talking about a certain topic with no input from others

• prolonged talk or discourse by a single speaker

• someone speaking alone

• prolonged talk or discourse by two speakers

Pragmatics is:

• the way we convey the meaning through communication.

• the meanings of words and phrases in a particular context.

Which set of words are not functions of texts?

• persuasive, referential, phatic

• interaction, conversational, instructional

• expressive, entertainment, instructional

In speech, tone is...

• is a musical term and, in language, relates to the level of voice production, high or low.

• relates to the emotion associated with the utterance.

• relates to the pace at which someone speaks.

• is the level of voice production, loud or soft.

What is graphology?

• The mathematics behind a text.

• The structure of an article.

• A text’s design and visual appearance.

• A text’s numerical appearance.