Using words or letters to imitate sounds_____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds_____________?

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

2. The theory which is based on the assumption that language originated as a result of human instinct to imitate sounds _______________?

   A. Ding Dong theory
   B. The Bow-vow theory
   C. The Pooh-pooh theory
   D. The Gesture theory

3. ____________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

4. ______________________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.

5. What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ?

   A. Alliterative
   B. Epic
   C. Acrostic
   D. Haiku

6. 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

7. ______________ 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.

8. “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

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

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

10. What is the word for a “play on words” ?

    A. pun
    B. simile
    C. haiku
    D. metaphor