Stress is used for the sake of ______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. _____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?

   A. Fredrick Douglass
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. William Apess

2. The motto “art for art’s sake” means that artists began to do which of the following ?

   A. Produce works of art that were meaningless
   B. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
   C. Avoid all forms of prose
   D. Make art profitable above all else

3. The special features which affect speech sounds such as stress, pitch intonation and juncture are called ______________?

   A. Supra__segmental phonemes
   B. Secondary phonemes
   C. Prosodic features
   D. All the above.

4. ________________refers to significant changes of pitch and stress pertaining to sentences?

   A. Intonation
   B. Stress
   C. Pitch
   D. JuncturE

5. Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks. Throughout the Middle Ages, English drama, like that of other European countries, was mainly ______________ and ______________?

   A. Psychological, Sexual
   B. Religious, Didactic
   C. Emotional, Psychological
   D. none of these

6. Certain morphemes have more than one meaning and can be understood in more than one way. They are called ______________?

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

7. A collection of similar Idiolect make up ______________?

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

8. The –s in ‘boys’ is ______________?

   A. An adjective forming morpheme
   B. Plural morpheme
   C. Possessive morpheme
   D. Past morpheme

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

   A. The international phonetic script
   B. The international phonetic alphabet
   C. The international phonemic script
   D. The intelligible phonetic script.

10. The substitution of the aspirated /k/ for the un__aspirated /k/ in the word ‘sky’ does not alter the meaning of the worD. It is an instance of ______________ ?

    A. Complementary distribution
    B. Contrastive distribution
    C. Non__complementary distribution
    D. None of the above