Unit-V Part-II

1.      Match the following :

                 i.          Metaphor                     -              (a) Use of word to mean something existing in close physical proximity

                ii.          Simile                           -              (b) comparison using a word to mean something similar to its literal meaning

               iii.          Metonymy                   -              (c) direct comparison using like or as

               iv.          Synecdoche                -              (d) Using a part to describe a whole

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b

                    c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

2.      ‘He has 5 mouths to feed’ – Identify the figure of speech:
                        a.  Metaphor        
                        b. Simile         
                        c. Metonymy     
                        d. Synecdoche

3.       Which one of the following is true?

a. A thesaurus lists words according to meaning.

b. Paronym is a type of Synonym.

c.  Antonyms are words that have the opposite meaning.       
d. All of them

4.      Match the following :

                 i.          Paronym                                    -              (a)single/married

                ii.          Complementary pairs              -              (b)good/bad

               iii.          Gradable pairs                          -              (c)buy/sell

               iv.          Relational opposites                -              (d)affect/effect

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c   

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b 

                    c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

5.      Which one of the following is true?

a.      Homonyms are words that have the same form but different meanings.

b.      Homophones have the same pronunciation but different spellings.

c.      Homographs are words spelled alike but pronounced differently in each of their meanings.

d.      All of them

6.      Who among the following listed the seven different types of meaning in semantics?
                        a.  Odgen           
                        b. Richard           
                        c. Geoffrey Leech
                        d. Stephen Downes

7.      Which among the following indicates the dictionary meaning?
                        a.  Connotative Meaning
                        b. Conceptual Meaning  
                        c. Collocative Meaning 
                        d. Affective Meaning

8.      Match the following :

                 i.          Affective Meaning                   -              (a)order and emphasis

                ii.          Thematic Meaning                   -              (b)association with words

               iii.          Reflected Meaning                  -              (c)speaker’s feeling/attitude

               iv.          Collocative Meaning               -              (d)a kind of ambiguity

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c 

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b 

                    c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

9.      Change from weaker to stronger meaning refers to :
                        a.  Hyperbole      
                        b. Meiosis          
                        c. Antiphrasis    
                        d. Ellipsis

10.   Which among the following is NOT an Indo-European language?
                        a.  Germanic           
                        b. Greek        
                        c. Semitic           
                        d. Celtic

11.   Which among the following is an Old English Literature?
                        a.  Beowulf
                        b. The Canterbury Tales
                        c. Wycliffe’s Bible
                        d. Ormulum

12.   English belongs to which of the following branch?
                        a.  North Germanic
                        b. East Germanic
                        c. West Germanic
                        d. Celtic

13.   Which one of the following is true?

a. Grimm's Law is a statement of the relationship between certain consonants in Germanic languages and their originals in Indo-European.

b. The basic principle of Grimm's law was discovered by Danish scholar Rasmus Rask.

c.  Grimm’s law is also known as Germanic Consonant Shift. 
d. All of them.

14.   Which among the following first demonstrated the significant role that accent (stress) played in linguistic change in the Germanic languages?
                        a.  Grimm’s Law
                        b. Verner’s Law
                        c. Kluge’s Law  
                        d. None of them

15.   The ‘Old English’ is also known as :
                        a. Anglo-Saxon   
                        b. Anglo-Norman
                        c. Old Norse
                        d. Anglo-Frisian

16.   ‘Norman Conquest’ occurred in :
                        a.  1215             
                        b. 1066               
                        c. 1072          
                        d. 1124

17.   ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’ is work written by :
                        a.  Bede                
                        b. Cædmon          
                        c. Aldhelm          
                        d. Cynewulf

18.   Which is a dialectal form of ‘Old English’?
                        a.  Anglian           
                        b. Kentish            
                        c. West Saxon      
                        d. All of them

19.   Which among the following words is of Latin origin?
                        a.  School          
                        b. Chalk            
                        c. Butter          
                        d. All of them

20.   Which among the following is true?

a.      In Old English a larger set of inflections in verbs, nouns, adjectives and pronouns are used.

b.      Old English has less fixed word order.

c.      Old English preserves grammatical gender in noun and adjectives.

d.      All of them

21.   Which among the following is true?

a.       Names of places in England ending in –by, -thorp, -beck, -dale, -thwaite, -toft etc. show Scandinavian influence.

b.      The common names like bank, egg, sister, window etc. are of Scandinavian origin.

c.      Many of the pronominal forms like they, them, their etc. are of Scandinavian origin.

d.      All of them

22.   Match the following :

                 i.          Old English                                 -              (a)(1150-1500)

                ii.          Middle English                          -              (b)(1500-1700)

               iii.          Early Modern English              -              (c)(1700- present)

               iv.          Modern English                        -              (d)(450-1150)AD

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b 

                    c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

23.   ‘Katherine Group’ belongs to which category of literature?
                        a.  Religious            
                        b. Courtly love
                        c. Arthurian      
                        d. None of these

24.   Layamon’s Brut is a/an …………. Literature.
                        a.  Old English         
                        b. Middle English 
                        c. Early Modern     
                        d. Modern

25.   Which among the following is a Middle English literature?
                        a.  Ormulum          
                        b. Piers Plowman  
                        c. Havelock The Dane
                        d. All of them

26.   The first person to introduce printing press in England is :
                        a.  John Gower        
                        b. William Caxton
                        c. Robert Henryson
                        d. William Dunbar

27.   Which among the following is true?

a.      The Middle English long vowels and diphthongs changed their pronunciation during The Great Vowel Shift.

b.      The term The Great Vowel Shift is coined by Otto Jespersen.

c.      The Great Vowel Shift occurred between 1400 and 1600.

d.      All of them

28.   Words like Pork, Poultry, Mutton, Beef, Forest, Liberty …etc. are of …….. orgin.
                        a.  German
                        b. Latin                
                        c. French        
                        d. Italian

29.   Geoffrey Chaucer’s writing were in :
                        a.  Anglo-Saxon     
                        b. Wessex dialect
                        c. London dialect
                        d. Kentish dialect

30.   Which among the changes happened during Middle English period?

a.      Emergence of the voiced fricatives /v/, /ð/, /z/ as separate phonemes.

b.      Reduction of the Old English diphthongs to monophthongs.

c.      Merging of Old English /æ/ and /ɑ/ into a single vowel /a/.

d.      All of them

31.   Match the following :

                 i.          Ash                               -              (a) ƿ

                ii.          Eth                                -              (b) þ

               iii.          Thorn                           -              (c) ð

               iv.          Wynn                           -              (d) æ

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b

                    c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

32.   Wycliffe’s Bible belongs to :
                        a.  Old English    
                        b. Middle English
                        c. Early Modern
                        d. Modern

33.   ‘War of the Roses’ were a series of English civil wars fought between :
                        a.  1455-1487        
                        b. 1066-1095       
                        c. 1511-1523      
                        d. 1111-1125

34.   ‘War of the Roses’ ended with :
                        a.  Battle of Barnet
                        b. Battle of Northampton
                        c. Battle of Bosworth 
                        d. Battle of Wakefield

35.   The word ‘alphabet’ is taken from :
                        a.  German
                        b. Greek               
                        c. Latin             
                        d. Sanskrit

36.   Match the following Latin phrases with their meanings :

                 i.          Habeas Corpus                          -              (a)the positions being reversed

                ii.          Vice Versa                                  -              (b)sincerely

               iii.          Pro Rata                                     -              (c)that you have a body

               iv.          Bona Fide                                   -              (d)proportionally

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b

                    c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    d.  (i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d

37.   Match the following Greek phrases with their meanings :

                 i.          An Achilles’ heel                       -              (a)expressions of sorrow that are insincere

                ii.          The Midas touch                       -              (b)a person’s weak point

               iii.          Crocodile tears                          -              (c)the situation might be better off left alone

               iv.          Pandora’s box                           -              (d)good fortune

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b 

                    c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c

38.   Match the following words with their origins :

                 i.          Accident, doctor, grammar                   -              (a)Latin

                ii.          Minister, candle, priest                          -              (b)Hindi

               iii.          Joy, music, cinema                                -              (c)Greek

               iv.          Shampoo, dacoit, bungalow                 -              (d)French

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b

                    c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c

39.   Which among the following are words introduced by Shakespeare to English language?
                        a.  Beautiful           
                        b. Manager       
                        c. Addiction     
                        d. All of them

40.   Which among the following is a word NOT introduced by Milton to English Language?
                        a.  Pandemonium  
                        b. Assassination  
                        c. Fragrance     
                        d. Terrific

41.   Which among the following is a word NOT introduced by Shakespeare to English language?
                        a.  Padlock          
                        b. Luggage         
                        c. Bedroom        
                        d. outbreak

42.   Match the following phrases introduced by Shakespeare with their meanings :

                 i.          Break the ice                             -              (a)follow the rules

                ii.          A laughing stock                       -              (b)to be in trouble

               iii.          In a pickle                                  -              (c)a joke by many people

               iv.          Fair play                                     -              (d)asking a person polite questions about himself

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b

                    c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c

43.   Which among the following statement is true?

a.      Creole is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages.

b.      Creole have a fully developed vocabulary and system of grammar.

c.      Creole is the first language of a speech community of native speakers.

d.      All of them

44.   Which among the following statement is true?

a.      A pidgin is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more group that do not have a common language.

b.      A pidgin is not the native language of any speech community, but is instead learned as a second language.

c.      Butler English or Kitchen English is a pidgin developed in India during Madras Presidency.

d.      All of them

45.   Which among the following is an example of “onomatopoeia”?
                        a.  Hiccup               
                        b. Beep            
                        c. Roar     
                        d. All of them

46.   Match the following :

                 i.          Nativization                               -              (a)used in a particular context

                ii.          Jargon                                       -              (b)Tok Pisin

               iii.          Onomatopoeia                         -              (c)A language gains native speakers

               iv.          Pidgin English                          -              (d)Tic-Tac

                  a.  (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    b. (i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b 

                    c. (i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-b,(iv)-a

                    d. (i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c

47.   The first edition of Noah Webster’s ‘American Dictionary of the English Language’ was published in :
                        a.  1828            
                        b. 1855       
                        c. 1878           
                        d. 1901

48.   The process of creating a new lexeme by removing actual or supposed affixes is called :
                        a.  Orthography     
                        b. Back-formation
                        c. Creole         
                        d. Francophile

49.   A language or dialect systematically used to make communication possible between people who do not share a native languge is called :
                        a.  Creole            
                        b. Pidgin             
                        c. Francophile    
                        d. lingua franca

50.   Which among the following is the court language in India?
                        a.  Hindi                 
                        b. Sanskrit         
                        c. English        
                        d. Any regional language