Language and Power
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English
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12th Grade
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Practice Problem
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Hard
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Margaret Anderson
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
If power is enforceable because it comes from a place of authority - eg rules, laws - it can be described as...
influential power
instrumental power
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The power to shape ideas or to persuade an audience can be described as...
influential power
instrumental power
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
'Teacher talk' is an example of...
instrumental power (spoken)
instrumental power (written)
Influential power (spoken)
influential power (written)
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Every profession generates its own specialised language or field specific lexis. We often call this...
rhetoric
graphology
jargon
neologisms
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.10
CCSS.RI.6.10
CCSS.RI.7.10
CCSS.RI.8.10
CCSS.RI.9-10.10
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How is the concept of "the female" often presented in written text?
As a submissive gender
As equal to "the male"
As an unimportant gender
As authoritative
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.9
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which grammatical convention is almost always still adhered to within written texts?
The female subject / object is omitted from the sentence
The male is given syntactic order of precedence
The female proper noun is not capitalised
The male noun is overly-modified with positive adjectives
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.1
CCSS.RI.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.11-12.2
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A male-dominated society has caused which language features to occur more commonly in women's spoken language?
Directive, rather than imperative, sentence types
Tag questions
Hedges and fillers
All of the above
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