Language features

Descrição

A 10 question multiple choice quiz testing learners' knowledge of various linguistic features they might need to identify and comment on in exams.
Sarah Holmes
Quiz por Sarah Holmes, atualizado more than 1 year ago
Sarah Holmes
Criado por Sarah Holmes aproximadamente 9 anos atrás
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Resumo de Recurso

Questão 1

Questão
What are the three basic types of sentences?
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  • simple, compound, complex
  • Long, medium, short
  • Main, secondary, insignificant

Questão 2

Questão
"The broad, quiet street" This is an example of a
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  • An adverbial phrase
  • A prepositional phrase
  • A noun phrase

Questão 3

Questão
"Her eyes shone like the stars above" Is this figurative device
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  • a simile
  • personification
  • a metaphor

Questão 4

Questão
Is the word 'love' is a . . .
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  • Proper noun
  • Abstract noun
  • Common noun

Questão 5

Questão
An onomatopoeic word does what?
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  • Describes how an action has been done
  • Sounds like the thing it represents
  • Gives non-living things characteristics of people or animals

Questão 6

Questão
How many modal verbs are there?
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  • 9
  • 5
  • 10

Questão 7

Questão
"Beloved, sweetheart bastard" This is an example of
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  • Juxtaposition
  • Oxymoron
  • Comparison

Questão 8

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Hyperbole means
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  • An exaggerated word or phrase that is used for emphasis but shouldn't be taken literally
  • A word or phrase that expresses the extremes of things
  • Putting two contrasting ideas together

Questão 9

Questão
What are imperatives?
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  • Verbs that give orders, directions or are used to make requests
  • nouns that name people and places
  • verbs that relate to physical actions

Questão 10

Questão
The connotations of words or phrases are
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  • The literal meaning of the words and phrases
  • The implied or suggested meanings
  • The alternative definition of a word

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