In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called ?

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1. 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

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2. Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed by native users of a language which enables them to speak and understand their language fluently was introduced by________?

   A. Sassure
   B. Enoch Powel
   C. Noam Chomsky
   D. None of these

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3. Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?

   A. Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode
   B. Blake’s “Prophetic Books”
   C. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman
   D. all but C

4. Who defined language as “a set or (finite or infinite) sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements” ?

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

5. Who argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species ?

   A. Ferdenand de Sassure
   B. Albert Chomsky
   C. Noam Chomsky
   D. Noah Webster

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6. The theory which is based on the assumption that language originated in the sense of rhythm innate in man ?

   A. Ding Dong theory
   B. The Bow__vow theory
   C. The Pooh__pooh theory
   D. The Gesture theory

7. Who has defined ’poetry’ as a fundamental creative act using languages ?

   A. H. W. Longfellow
   B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
   C. Dylan Thomas
   D. William Wordsworth

8. In which essay did Arnold say that for good literature to flourish two powers are necessary – creative and the critical ?

   A. The Function of Criticism
   B. The Study of Poetry
   C. Preface to Eighteen Fifty Three poems
   D. Essay on Wordsworth

9. Which of the following statements best characterizes the contrast between T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and the futurist aesthetic project ?

   A. “The Waste Land” is primarily concerned with nature, whereas the futurists are most interested in industrial and urban landscapes.
   B. “The Waste Land” confronts the fragmentation of modernity by exploring a variety of modes and voices, whereas the futurists do not focus on the fragmentation of modern experience, praising speed and industrial progress instead.
   C. “The Waste Land” is an ironic exploration of Romantic themes, whereas the futurists incorporate ironic evocations of the classical tradition in their poetry.
   D. “The Waste Land” focuses on the personal connection between poet and speaker, whereas the futurists focus on an impersonal connection between humans and industry.

10. Which of the following best characterizes the contrast between Gertrude Stein’s poetry and Imagist poetry ?

    A. Stein experimented only with the sound qualities of language, whereas the Imagists focused on visual imagery.
    B. Stein experimented with language that skirted the edges of sense, whereas the Imagists sought precision and clarity of expression.
    C. Stein sought to combine classical poetic form with contemporary content, whereas the Imagists used traditional poetic subject matter but experimented with form.
    D. Stein sought precision and clarity in her poems, whereas the Imagists sought experimental forms that enhanced visual imagery.