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Phonology

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a phoneme?

a)

the smallest unit of sound

b)

a blend of phone and meme

c)

a single letter

d)

the volume of your voice

2.

p b t d k g are all examples of...

a)

plosives

b)

fricatives

c)

affricates

d)

nasals

3.

th sh f s are examples of...

a)

plosives

b)

fricatives

c)

affricates

d)

nasals

4.

ch (as in church) and dg (as in judge) are...

a)

plosives

b)

fricatives

c)

affricates

d)

nasals

5.

What is a glottal stop?

a)

a combination of a plosive and a fricative

b)

how you make an L sound

c)

making a fricative sound last a long time

d)

closing vocal cords instead of pronouncing a T

6.

What might the writer of a novel use to represent a character's regional dialect?

a)

the IPA

b)

eye-dialect

c)

diphthongs

d)

onomatopoeia

7.

What sort of rhyme can we see here: "great grazed grave"

a)

pararhyme

b)

eye-rhyme

c)

reverse rhyme

8.

Which phonological device is being used in the phrase "new blue moon"?

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

pararhyme

c)

assonance

d)

homophones

9.

If a poet rhymes 'escaped' with 'scooped', what sort of rhyme is this?

a)

pararhyme

b)

eye-rhyme

c)

reverse rhyme

10.

Which is the correct spelling?

a)

diphthong

b)

dipthong

c)

diphtong

d)

dithpong