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Total questions: 25

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Name
Class
Date
1.

connotative meaning

a)

the positive and negative emotions associated with the word; how the word makes you feel.

b)

demonstrative and significative

c)

emotional, evaluative

d)

intensifying and expressive

e)

All answers are correct.

2.

>….. is defined as the expression of relationships between words, more abstract and more generalized.

a)

Lexico-grammatical meaning

b)

Lexical meaning

c)

Grammatical meaning

d)

Semisology

e)

Etimology

3.

The material meaning of a word as distinct from its formal, grammatical meaning, which reflects the concept the word expresses

a)

Semisology

b)

Lexico-grammatical meaning

c)

Grammatical meaning

d)

Lexical meaning

e)

Etimology

 

4.

The meaning of the formal membership of a word in the grammatical system of a language (is expressed in the word's form).

a)

Etimology

b)

Grammatical meaning

c)

Lexical meaning

d)

Semisology

e)

Lexico-grammatical meaning

5.

Paradigm is …

a)

>the linguistic reflection of the concept the given word expresses and the basic properties of the thing the word denotes.

b)

the system showing a word in all its word forms.

c)

the meaning of the formal membership of a word expressed by the word’s form.

d)

the inner facet of the word, inseparable from its outer facet.

e)

The system closely connected with the three components of meaning.

6.

Synchronic approach to language ……..

a)

the various means of expressing grammatical relations between words

b)

the change and development of vocabulary in the course of time

c)

the outer sound form of the word

d)

All answers are correct

e)

is concerned with the vocabulary of a language as it exists at a given period of time

7.

diachronic approach to language…

a)

is concerned with the vocabulary of a language as it exists at a given period of time

b)

deals with the changes and the development of vocabulary in the course of time

c)

the various means of expressing grammatical relations between words

d)

the outer sound form of the word

e)

All answers are correct

8.

>……. is concerned with the vocabulary of a language as it exists at a given time, for instance, at the present time.

a)

none of them

 

b)

the synchronic approach

c)

functional approach

d)

diachronic approach

e)

the referential approach

9.

>…………. in terms of Special Lexicology deals with the changes and the development of vocabulary in the course of time.

a)

diachronic approach

b)

functional approach

c)

the synchronic approach

d)

the referential approach

e)

none of them

 

10.

>…….. is a unit of meaning in a language, consisting of a word or group of words?

a)

lexeme

b)

morpheme

c)

abstract unit

 

d)

lexical meaning

e)

grammatical meaning

11.

What is vocabulary?

a)

grammatical meaning

b)

abstract unit

c)

All answers are correct.

d)

The system formed by the total sum of all the words that language possesses.

e)

morpheme

12.

derived word….

a)

None of them

b)

All answers are correct.

 

c)

a word formed or originated from another or form a root in the same or another language

d)

object denoted by the word, part of reality;

e)

>(thought, reference) the thought of the object that singles out its essential features;

13.

back derivation…..

a)

the formation of a word forms the stem (base) of another word, i.e., by means of cutting off suffixes (prefixes) from the source word

b)

None of them

c)

object denoted by the word, part of reality;

d)

>(thought, reference) the thought of the object that singles out its essential features;

e)

All answers are correct.

14.

What is sound-form of semantic triangle?  

a)

All answers are correct.

b)

object denoted by the word, part of reality;

c)

>(thought, reference) the thought of the object that singles out its essential features;

d)

None of them

e)

>(symbol, sign) linguistic sign

15.

What is referent of semantic triangle?

a)

None of them.

b)

All answers are correct.

 

c)

object denoted by the word, part of reality;

d)

>(thought, reference) the thought of the object that singles out its essential features;

e)

>(symbol, sign) linguistic sign

16.

Semantic changes has two main ways

a)

gradual (specialization and generalization) and momentary (metaphor and metanymy);

b)

Ellipses and formation;

c)

All answers are correct.

 

d)

gradual (elevation and degradation) and momentary (hyperbole and litotes);

e)

None of them

17.

>…….. is a transfer of the meaning on the basis of contiguity

a)

Conversion

b)

Metaphor

c)

Composition

 

d)

Metonymy

e)

Word-building

18.

>……. is a transfer of the meaning when it becomes better in the course of time, e.g. «knight» originally meant «a boy», then «a young servant», then «a military servant», then «a noble man».

a)

Conversion

b)

Word-building

c)

Elevation

d)

Composition

e)

Metaphor

19.

Who was written Etymological Dictionary by?

a)

by R. Soule

b)

by W. Skeat

c)

by A.V. Koonin

d)

by Samuel Johnson

e)

by Noah Webster

20.

>…….is a transfer of the meaning when the speaker uses exaggeration, e.g. «to hate» (doing something), (not to see somebody) «for ages».

a)

Simile

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Irony

d)

Metaphor

e)

Euphemism

21.

Similarity of meanings is …

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

>Litotes

 

d)

Hyperbole

e)

Metonymy

22.

Etymological Dictionary includes …

a)

all of them

b)

phraseological units

c)

resent-day words to the oldest forms of these words and forms of these words in other languages

d)

antonyms

e)

record only pronounciation

23.

Secondary ways of semantic changes:

a)

None of them

b)

All answers are correct.

c)

elevation and degradation, hyperbole and litotes;

d)

gradual (specialization and generalization) and momentary (metaphor and metanymy);

e)

Elipses and formation;

24.

Metaphor can be based on different types of similarity:

a)

similarity of colour:

 

b)

similarity of shape:

c)

similarity of position:

d)

All answers are correct.

e)

similarity of function, behaviour:

25.

similarity of colour is one of the metaphor types of similiarity. Find its example.

a)

orange, hazel, chestnut

b)

foot (of a page, of a mountain), head (of procession);

c)

a whip (an official in the British Parliament whose duty is to see that members were present at the voting), a bookworm (a person who is fond of books);

d)

head (of a cabbage), bottleneck, teeth (of a saw, a comb);

e)

> none of them