WorksheetsAS Level English Language terminology
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The person/people reading/listening to the language are called?
Text reciever
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.
Who is usually the text producer?
The person who choose the text.
The person who wrote the text.
The person who paid for the text.
The person who read the text.
What is semantics?
The meaning of a text without its images.
The meaning of a text at word level.
The meaning of a text at sentence or its whole level.
The meaning of a text’s images.
What does lexis refer to?
The images being used in a text.
The words being used in the text.
The meaning of a text as a whole.
The ideas in a text.
What is Ms Espinoza's favourite animal?
Cat
Dolphin
Dog
Sloth
What are Aristotle's modes of persuasion?
Logos, Ethos, Pathos
Pathos, Legos, Ethics
Ethose, Emotions, Ego
Not sure miss
In persuasive rhetoric, what does ethos appeal to?
The evidence and reasoning of the speaker
The experience of the speaker to talk on the subject
The emotions of the speaker
The ethics of the idea in question
What does PAMF stand for?
Purpose
Attention
Moral
Form
People
Always
Miss
Friends
Purpose
Audience
Message
Form
Purpose
Author
Message
Form
What are the two effects of using a list in a sentence?
To show scope (the extent of the matter)
To show order of importance
Cumulative
To take up time in your writing
What is mode?
Something to do with maths
The type of communication (spoken or written)
Related to genre
What does FORM relate to?
Something that you fill out with your personal details
The class you go to in the mornings
The type of text, eg Letter, biography, article, speech
The genre of the text
