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Language and Power

Authored by Margaret Anderson

English

12th Grade

CCSS covered

Language and Power
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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.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.2

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.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

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

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