______________ is the system of phonetic notation composed of symbols and letters devised by the International Phonetic Association?

Related Mcqs:

1. The different concrete phonetic variation of the same phoneme are called______________?

   A. Allophones
   B. Homophones
   C. Homographs
   D. Homonyms

2. How many types of phonetic transcriptions are generally followed ?

   A. Only one
   B. Two
   C. Innumerable
   D. None of the above

3. Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?

   A. Skipping church on Sunday
   B. A woman screaming at her husband in public
   C. Stealing a horse
   D. Public drunkenness

4. Who defined language as “a purely human and noninstinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols” ?

   A. Noam Chomsky
   B. Ferdinand de Saussure
   C. Edward Sapir
   D. None of the above

5. A critic examining John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a critic ?

   A. Reader Response
   B. Feminist
   C. Mimetic
   D. Formalist

6. One of the dominant themes in Wallace Stevens’s poem “Sunday Morning” consists of the juxtaposition of nature against which set of cultural symbols ?

   A. The ideal of courtly love
   B. Elements of the Christian narrative of salvation
   C. The alchemical concept of the philosopher’s stone
   D. The Renaissance concept of humanism

7. “Epipsychidion” is composed by ______________?

   A. Coleridge
   B. Wordsworth
   C. Keats
   D. Shelley

8. Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein in the form of a frame story that starts one character wring letters to his sister. Who is that character ?

   A. Captain Cooper
   B. Victor Frankenstein
   C. Captain Robert Walton
   D. Sergent Thomas Vincent

9. Using words or letters to imitate sounds_____________?

   A. alliteration
   B. simile
   C. onomatopoeia
   D. none of the above

10. Who said that Keat’s love letters of a surgeon’s apprentice ?

    A. Arnold
    B. Shelley
    C. Byron
    D. Hazlitt