__________________is the accent on certain words within the a sentence?

Related Mcqs:

1. Complete the following sentence. In the opening lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Windhover,” the words “daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon” ?

   A. are an example of antithesis to suggest the falcon’s contradictory nature.
   B. use alliterative language to draw attention to the falcon’s importance as a symbol of Christ.
   C. refer to the speaker’s heart.
   D. indicate the speaker’s lack of faith.

2. ____________is the process by which new words are coined by combining the segments of two different words ?

   A. Portmanteau
   B. Onomatopoeia
   C. Clipping
   D. Metanalysis

3. ______________________is a processes of word formation wherein new words are coined by combining the segments of two different existing words?

   A. Compounding
   B. Portmanteau
   C. Derivation
   D. Backformation.

4. The term________________refers to omissions of certain sounds, syllables or even words in continuous speech?

   A. Alliteration
   B. Assonance
   C. Elision
   D. None of the above

5. A term which refers to the sequential characteristics of language. When we construct WORDS and SENTENCES we follow a certain order in arranging the individual items.

   A. Syntagmatic
   B. Synergy
   C. Performance
   D. N. O. T

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

6. The language variety which has certain features which are typical of certain disciplines, topics, fields, occupations and social roles played by the speaker, is called________________ ?

   A. Dialect
   B. Idiolect
   C. Register
   D. Slang

7. Complete the following sentence. Keats’s idea of “negative capability” refers to the idea that______________?

   A. certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.
   B. the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.
   C. the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.
   D. it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.

8. Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?

   A. its focus on his lost love.
   B. its rejection of scientific progress.
   C. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
   D. its development of elements from national folklore.

9. Complete the following sentence. Shelley’s “Ozymandias” can be linked to his “Defence of Poetry” through its_______________?

   A. rejection of traditional form.
   B. portrayal of the power of art to speak truth.
   C. rejection of art’s political role.
   D. attempt to link poetry with music.

10. Complete the following sentence. Neoclassicism most paralleled Enlightenment thought in its_______________?

    A. rejection of Renaissance optimism.
    B. rejection of traditional models.
    C. emphasis on order, logic, and universal truths.
    D. emphasis on the corrupt nature of the aristocracy.