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TYPES OF WORDS AND WORD PLAY

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are content words?

a)

Words that belong to the main classes of parts of speech.

b)

Words that do not have a clear lexical meaning.

c)

Words that express relationships between other words.

2.

What are function words?

a)

Words that do not have a clear lexical meaning.

b)

Words that describe objects or actions.

c)

Words that are part of a closed class.

3.

What is a portmanteau?

a)

A word formed by the fusion of parts of two or more words.

b)

An abbreviation where each letter is pronounced separately.

c)

A word that describes an object or action.

4.

What is alliteration?

a)

Repetition of vowel sounds

b)

Repetition of consonant sounds

c)

Repetition of the same initial sound in words

d)

Use of words with double meaning

5.

What is a double meaning?

a)

A phrase with a single meaning

b)

A phrase with two interpretations

c)

A rhyme technique

d)

A form of poetry

6.

What is assonance?

a)

Coincidence of consonant sounds

b)

Coincidence of vowel sounds

c)

Use of contradictory words

d)

A form of wordplay

7.

What is an oxymoron?

a)

A phrase that combines two contradictory words

b)

A technique of rhyme

c)

A form of poetry

d)

A phrase with a single meaning

8.

Refers to something known or specific:

(a)  

9.

Show relationship in time and space

(a)  

10.

Phrase whose meaning cannot be understood from the individual words alone.

(a)  

11.

Which of the following words are content words?

a)

Book

b)

Pretty

c)

Always

d)

Before

e)

You

12.

Which of the following words are function words?

a)

Myself

b)

Potato

c)

Beautiful

d)

Because

e)

Must