A. Standard English
B. Received Pronunciation
C. Standard pronunciation
D. Recognized pronunciation
Related Mcqs:
- “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?
A. Samson Occcum
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Mayflower Compact - The American pronunciation of the word ‘issue’ is an instance of ________________type of assimilation?
A. Progressive
B. Regressive
C. Reciprocal
D. None of the above - In the pronunciation of the word ‘ink’ the alveolar /n/ becoming a velar sound is an instance of ____________?
A. Progressive
B. Regressive
C. Reciprocal
D. None of the above - Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School, London ?
A. Charles Lamb
B. William Wordsworth
C. Leigh Hunt
D. S. T. Coleridge - The work of John Foxe was no longer read or heeded in educated circles after which major historical event ?
A. Restoration
B. Glorious Revolution
C. French Revolution
D. Seven Years War - Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
A. Sir Thomas Malory
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Caedmon
D. John Gower - Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
A. Bede
B. Sir Thomas Malory
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Caedmon - Which of the following sixteenth-century works of English literature was translated into the English language after its first publication in Latin ?
A. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
B. William Shakespeare’s King Lear
C. Thomas More’s The History of King Richard III
D. Thomas More’s Utopia - the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ?
A. Iliad
B. Odyssey
C. Beowulf
D. Canterbury Tales - This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?
A. C.S. Lewis
B. T.S. Eliot
C. G.K. Chesterton
D. Matthew Arnold
