B
  • 1. What makes "Hamlet" a tragedy?
A) D. It is primarily a comedy with tragic elements.
B) A. It ends with the death of the main character
C) B. It deals with serious and somber themes.
D) C. It is set during a time of war and political unrest.
  • 2. 202. In Macbeth, we see Macbeth’s downfall caused by ______. ***Actual March 2012 LET
A) supernatural intervention
B) D. a naturally blood-thirsty disposition
C) C. an unfair plot against his life
D) B. overwhelming ambition for power
  • 3. What is the real name of Mark Twain, the author of two of the Great American Novels of the 19th century—The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? ***Actual March 2017 LET
A) A. William Cullen Bryant
B) D. Vachel Lindsey
C) C. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
D) B. Sidney Lanier
  • 4. 204. The lines of the poem below describe Africa as a land that is ____________.
    AFRICA
    By: David Diop
    Africa, my Africa
    Africa of proud warriors
    In ancestral savanna
    Africa of whom my grandmother sings
A) A. Free and beautiful
B) B. Mysterious and unexplored
C) C. War town and undeveloped
D) D. Primitive and uncivilized
  • 5. A novel written by Mongo Beti is a stark revelation of the deception, hypocrisy, blasphemy, and moral decadence that characterize a small village set in colonial Cameroon, a microcosm of Africa, brimming with
    Catholic missionaries. What is the title of this novel?
A) B. The Poor Christ of Bombay
B) C. The River Between
C) D. Heirs to the Past
D) A. The Houseboy
  • 6. Who was the earliest interpreter of the philosophy of Taoism? ***Actual March 2024 LET
A) B. Chuang Tzu
B) A. Lao-Tzu
C) C. Lieh Tzu
D) D. Lui An
  • 7. Which of the following lines from the poem “Vulture” by Chinua Achebe represents a miserable or
    bleak scene? ***Actual September 2023 LET
    “In the grayness
    And drizzle of one despondent
    Dawn unstirred by harbingers
    Of sun break a vulture
    Perching high on
    Broken bones a dead tree…”
A) C. in the grayness
B) A. dawn unstirred by harbingers
C) D. broken bones and a dead tree
D) B. of sun break a vulture
  • 8. What is the title of the collected sayings of Confucius which contain truth about social relations between and among family members?
A) D. The Way
B) C. The Doctrine of the Mean
C) A. The Analects
D) B. The Great Learning
  • 9. Of the Five Classics, which describes ancient rites, social forms, and court ceremonies?
A) A. Book of Changes
B) D. Spring and Autumn Annals
C) C. Book of Poetry
D) B. Book of Rites
  • 10. Who is the Chinese leader whose essays and poems depicted totalitarian rule in China and advocated a revolutionary government? ***Actual August 2014 LET/September 2015 LET
A) B. Mao Zedong
B) C. Jiang Qing
C) D. Sun Yat-sen
D) A. Chiang Kai-shek
  • 11. According to Confucius, what is the best way to rule people and attain harmony? ***Actual March 2012 LET “If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?”
A) A. by force
B) D. by allowing people to do as they please
C) C. by moral example
D) B. by consulting the governed
  • 12. Which of the following is a classic work of Japanese literature by Murasaki Shikibu? It is sometimes called the world's first true novel, the first modern novel, or the first psychological novel. ***Actual March 2013 LET
A) D. Tale of the Heike
B) A. A Collection of Tales from Uji
C) B. Tale of Genji
D) C. Tale of Flowering Fortunes
  • 13. Japanese folktale entitled The Story of the Aged Mother speaks about the following EXCEPT one. Which is the exception?
A) D. It is an exhibit of the saying: with a crown of snow, there cometh wisdom.
B) A. The fate of the common people under a despot is grim.
C) B. A citizen’s disobedience towards a cruel mandate ends tragically
D) C. The daimyo’s unreasonable order is seemingly a boast of his power
  • 14. What is dominantly tackled in “Say It with Flowers” by Toshio Mori?
A) C. managing a flower shop business
B) B. people being able to communicate with flowers
C) D. businessmen fooling their clients and customers
D) A servants being treated by bosses
  • 15. He is known as the “Indian Shakespeare” and the brightest of the “Navaratnas” (Nine Gems) in Emperor Chandragupta II’s court. Who is he? *** Actual March 2013 LET
A) A. Bhasa
B) D. Vyasa
C) C. Valmiki
D) B. Kalidasa
  • 16. The Gitanjali is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. What is the English translation of the title? *** Actual August 2014 LET
A) A. Song for the Least
B) C. Song of Freedom
C) B. Song Offerings
D) D. Song of Songs
  • 17. What literary device was predominantly used in the Arabian Nights?
A) C. deus ex machine
B) A. allegory
C) B. frame story
D) D. verisimilitude
  • 18. This is Chinua Achebe’s magnum opus and the most widely read book in modern African literature. It
    recounts the story of Okonkwo, a yam farmer who lives during the colonization of Nigeria, and focuses on the corruption that is rampant in African societies. This novel is the first of The African Trilogy. What is the title of the novel?
A) B. No Longer at Ease
B) A. A Man of the People
C) D. Things Fall Apart
D) C. Arrow of God
  • 19. Who is the Nigerian poet and playwright who is the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature? His novels include “The Interpreters” and “Season of Anomy.”
A) A. Bernard Dadie
B) C. David Diop
C) D. Wole Soyinka
D) B. Nelson Mandela
  • 20. Who is this South African leader who is an anti-apartheid revolutionary and considered the “Father of the Nation”? He wrote “Long Walk to Freedom.”
A) D. Wole Soyinka
B) A. Bernard Dadie
C) B. Nelson Mandela
D) C. David Diop
  • 21. Which Indian literary work depicts Hindu beliefs and forms of social organization, karma theory, wifehood ideals, and attitudes about caste, honor, and promises? It consists of over 24,000 couplets divided into seven books.
A) A. Mahabharata
B) B. Ramayana
C) D. Pachatranta
D) C. Bhagavad-Gita
  • 22. Which of the following works narrates the story of a king who goes hunting and meets a beautiful
    maiden who becomes his wife? It further relates the king and his wife’s separation and eventual unification.
A) B. Shakuntala
B) D. Tripitaka
C) A. Dhammapaba
D) C. Panchatantra
  • 23. Who is the Indian author whose works concern the struggles of contemporary Indians with conflicting Eastern and Western values?
A) D. Anita Desai
B) B. R. K. Narayan
C) C. Prem Chand
D) A. Kamala Markandaya
  • 24. This era in ancient Chinese civilization is also known as the “Hundred Schools Period” because of the many competing philosophers and teachers who emerged, the most influential among them being Lao Tzu and Confucius.
A) A. Shang Dynasty
B) B. T’ang Dynasty
C) C. Chou Dynasty
D) D. Ch’in Dynasty
  • 25. He is called the “father of the modern Chinese short story” because of his introduction of Western
    techniques.
A) B. Li Ch’ing-chao
B) C. Tu Fu
C) A. Chou-Shu-jen
D) D. Wang Wei
  • 26. One of the features of African oral literature that served foremost as memory aids for griots and other storytellers. It also creates rhythm, builds suspense, and adds emphasis to parts of the poem or narrative.
A) A. repeat-and-vary technique
B) B. tonal assonance
C) C. repetition and parallel structure
D) D. call-and-response format
  • 27. He is the leading figure of the Negritude movement. ***Actual March 2023 LET
A) B. Dennis Brutus
B) C. Wole Soyinka
C) D. David Diop
D) A. Leopold Senghor
  • 28. Train Journey by Dennis Brutus
    Along the miles of steel
    That span my land
    Threadbare children stand
    Knees ostrich bulbous on their reedy legs,
    Their empty hungry hands
    Lifted as if in a prayer.

    What does “miles of steel/ than span my land”’ mean? ***Actual September 2023 LET
A) A. Progressive and civilized areas of the land
B) B. Strength of the people
C) D. Existence of train in the land
D) C. Ruling leaders of the land
  • 29. Train Journey by Dennis Brutus
    Along the miles of steel
    That span my land
    Threadbare children stand
    Knees ostrich bulbous on their reedy legs,
    Their empty hungry hands
    Lifted as if in a prayer.

    What does the poem Train Journey by Dennis Brutus mean? ***Actual September 2023 LET
A) D. Scarcity of food for the children
B) B. Scarcity of industrial materials for the train
C) A. Poverty amidst industrial progress
D) C. Children’s survival from hunger
  • 30. Train Journey by Dennis Brutus
    Along the miles of steel
    That span my land
    Threadbare children stand
    Knees ostrich bulbous on their reedy legs,
    Their empty hungry hands
    Lifted as if in a prayer.

    What does the “ostrich” symbolize based on the poem Train Journey by Dennis Brutus?***Actual September 2023 LET
A) C. Developers
B) A. Children
C) D. Victims
D) B. Workers
  • 31. It is a satirical poem written by Wole Soyinka about a black man seeking the landlady’s permission to him in her lodging house. The poetic dialogue reveals the landlady’s deep-rooted prejudice against the colored people as the caller plays up to it.
A) D. Song of Lawino
B) B. Telephone Conversation
C) A. Train Journey
D) C. Africa
  • 32. What is the theme of this African proverb:
    “On the way to one’s beloved, there are no hills.”? ***Actual March 2024 LET
A) C. Obstacles make a relationship strong.
B) A. Real love knows no boundaries.
C) D. True love is tested by difficulties
D) B. Sacrifice is the gauge of true love.
  • 33. Who is the South African novelist and short story writer whose major themes are exile and alienation and who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991?
A) A. Bessie Head
B) B. Barbara Kimenye
C) C. Nadine Gordimer
D) D. Ousmane Sembene
  • 34. What is the theme of “Hansel and Gretel?” ***Actual March 2024 LET
A) A. resourcefulness and inventiveness in confronting challenging conditions
B) C. courage, good versus evil, loyalty, generosity, reputation, and the heroic code
C) D. imagination, courage versus cowardice, maternal love, and preserving memory
D) B. love and friendship, fate and free will, and honor
  • 35. Who is the famous author of "Peter Pan," a beloved work of children's literature from the Edwardian Era? ***Actual September 2023 LET
A) A. Lewis Carroll
B) B. J.M. Barrie
C) C. Beatrix Potter
D) D. Kenneth Grahame
  • 36. In Edwardian children's literature, E. Nesbit is known for her magical stories where children discover enchanted objects granting them wishes. What is the title of one of her famous works that features such a theme? ***Actual September 2023 LET
A) C. "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"
B) A. "Peter Pan"
C) B. "Five Children and it"
D) D. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”
  • 37. . What is the term for a type of teenagers' literature that explores the challenges and emotional struggles faced by young people, often dealing with issues like identity, relationships, and self-discovery?
A) B. Historical fiction
B) A. Adventure novels.
C) D. Biographies
D) C. Realistic fiction
  • 38. Which famous children's author from the Edwardian Era is known for her tales featuring anthropomorphic animals in charming, British countryside settings? ***Actual September 2023 LET
A) C. J.M. Barrie
B) A. Lewis Carroll
C) B. Beatrix Potter
D) D. Kenneth Grahame
  • 39. . In A. A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" stories, many of the characters are embodied by anthropomorphic
    toys. Each toy's personality and quirks seem perfectly aligned with their physical form. Which character's personality and actions are MOST demonstrably connected to their specific toy animal representation? ***Actual September 2023 LET
A) Piglet, the timid piglet, who is easily startled and hesitant, mirroring the skittish nature of real pigiets.
B) Tigger, the energetic tiger, whose bouncing and boisterous personality reflects the playful and bouncy nature of real tigers.
C) Rabbit, the meticulously organized rabbit, whose obsession with schedules and order closely resembles the busy tendencies of rabbits.
D) Eeyore, the gloomy donkey, whose long ears always seem droopy and whose demeanor reflects his pessimistic outlook.
  • 40. What era was “Peter Pan” was written? ***Actual March 2024 LET
A) A. Edwardian Period
B) C. Medieval Period
C) B. Victorian Period
D) D. Classical Period
  • 41. The following are children and adolescent literature genres based on format, except.
A) C. Picture books
B) A. Graphic novels
C) B. Verse novels
D) D. Transformational books
  • 42. In the story "The Little Prince," what does the rose symbolizes? ***Actual September 2023 LET
A) C. love, shame, guilt
B) A. love, beauty, feminist
C) B. love, beauty, masculinity
D) D. love, destiny, marriage
  • 43. It was considered the Golden Age of children's literature between the 18th and 19th centuries. ***Actual September 2023 LET
A) D. Shakespearean Era
B) A. Renaissance Period
C) C. Edwardian Period
D) B. Victorian Period
  • 44. . The 20th century was known for the production of picture storybooks and the personification of toy animals, one of it is? ***Actual September 2023 LET
A) A. The Charlotte's Web
B) C. Winnie the Pooh
C) B. The Lord of the Rings
D) D. The Hobbit
  • 45. Matsuo Basho's "The Old Pond," Kobayashi Issa's "A World of Dew," Natsume Soseki's "Over the Windtry," and Ravi Shankra's "Lines on a Skull" are examples of _______?
A) C. nursery rhymes
B) B. haiku
C) A. limerick
D) D. calligram poems
  • 46. "The Charlotte Web" by E.B. White is a classic adventure featuring a definitive animal fantasy. What era in literature was it published?
A) C. The 20th Century
B) D. The 18th Century
C) A. The Victorian Age
D) B. The Edwardian Era
  • 47. It is considered the oldest Anglo-Saxon epic poem that can be traced back to 975–1025 AD.
A) A. Epic of Gilgamesh
B) D. Illiad and Oddysey
C) C. Ramayana
D) B. Beowulf
  • 48. Yearly, the Banned Book Week lists Top-10 Challenged Books based on the number of complaints raised against the literature over the years. The list also indicates the challenge of concern raised against each book of literature. The following is the list for the year 2020, except ____.
A) A. To Kill a Mockingbird
B) C. George
C) D. The Reddest Eye
D) B. Of Mice and Men
  • 49. This strategy teaches the student to decipher explicit and implicit information on the materials that they are reading.
A) A. activating
B) D. inferring
C) B. monitoring
D) C. clarifying
  • 50. A story about a pig named Wilbur and his barn friend spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur was about to be slaughtered by his farmer owner for Christmas, he was saved by his spider friend.
A) D. The Fox and the Grapes
B) A. Peter Pan
C) B. Winnie the Pooh
D) C. Charlotte Web
  • 51. Which literary period of children's literature used heroic Bible stories and adventures to spread Catholic teaching?
A) A. Renaissance
B) B. Medieval
C) D. Victorian
D) C. 20th century
  • 52. Which author wrote books that reflected the characteristics of children's literature during the 18th century?
A) B. Lewis Carroll
B) C. Edward Lear
C) D. J. M. Barrie
D) A. John Newberry
  • 53. What time period does the emergence of chapbooks fall under? ***Actual March 2024 LET
A) D. Classical World of Greek and Roman.
B) C. The 18th and early 19th Century
C) A. Middle Age
D) B. Renaissance Period
  • 54. Which literary period of children's literature was Roman and Greek literature reintroduced?
A) D. Renaissance Period
B) C. The Edwardian Era
C) A. Classical Period
D) B. The 18 Century
  • 55. Every year, the Philippines proclaims National Children's Book Day on what day?
A) B. Second Tuesday of July
B) D. Third Tuesday of July
C) A. Second Tuesday of June
D) C. Third Tuesday of June
  • 56. It is defined as literature written after World War II through the present day.
A) A. Popular Literature
B) C. Contemporary Popular Literature
C) B. Emergent Literature
D) D. Contemporary Literature
  • 57. Which contemporary literature is described as enthralling and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past?
A) D. The Kite Runner
B) A. The Poisoned Bible
C) B. Beloved
D) C. To Kill a Mocking Bird
  • 58. What analysis method would be best suited to investigating the depiction of gender roles and power relations in Charlotte Bronte's work "Jane Eyre"?
A) A. Psychoanalysis
B) C. Feminism
C) D. Formalism
D) B. Marxism
  • 59. Which Nigerian-American author of "Americanah" and "We Should All Be Feminists" is known for her explorations of race, gender, and identity?
A) A. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
B) D. Roxane Gay
C) B. Yaa Gyasi
D) C. Zadie Smith
  • 60. Which of the following popular literary works would be best suited to teaching learners about the effects of war on people and societies?
A) C. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
B) D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
C) A. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
D) B. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 61. Julian Barnes, the British author of "The Sense of an Ending" and "Atonement," is known for literary works that include _____.
A) B. explorations of modern love, relationships, and social class
B) D. explorations of history, race, and injustice
C) C. explorations of memory, identity, and the subjectivity of truth
D) A. explorations of Jewish-American identity and popular culture
  • 62. How did World War II affect contemporary literature?
A) A. The violence of World War II caused people to shift their mindsets and question ideas such as human nature and truth.
B) D. All of the themes after World War II became similar because of war narratives.
C) C. World War II caused a massive amount of literature to be written in a short amount of time.
D) B. World War II created modern literature, which in turn, created contemporary literature.
  • 63. It is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format.
A) D. Graphic novel
B) B. Classic Literature
C) C. Mystery fiction
D) A. Adventure Literature.
  • 64. In which novel do characters explore the complexities of modern relationships and the impact of social and economic backgrounds on their lives?
A) B. "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
B) C. "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
C) D. "Her Body and Other Parties" Carmen Maria
D) A. "Normal People" by Sally Rooney
  • 65. Which collection of short stories delves into the lives of immigrants and their struggles with identity, cultural displacement, and interpersonal connections?
A) B. "Her Body & Other Parties" Carmen Machado
B) D. "The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" Junot Díaz
C) A. "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
D) C. "The Circle" by Dave Eggers
  • 66. Whose collection of essays explores the intricacies of empathy, pain, and our connections to others in an age of technological and emotional detachment?
A) A. Leslie Jamison
B) B. Roxane Gay
C) D. Rupi Kaur
D) C. Claudia Rankine
  • 67. A literary movement that reacted against Romanticism, rejecting heroic, adventurous, unusual, or unfamiliar subjects.
A) A. Puritan Period
B) B. Enlightenment Period
C) C. Realism
D) D. Modernism
  • 68. The following are themes that can be found in “The Hunger Games “ by Suzanne Collins EXCEPT _____.
A) A. The inequality between rich and poor
B) C. Individualism
C) D. Immortality
D) B. Suffering as entertainment
  • 69. Which method of literary analysis focuses on the relationship between literature and society, particularly in terms of power and class?
A) C. Psychoanalysis
B) A. Formalism
C) B. Marxism
D) D. New Criticism
  • 70. Which of the following literary works would be most relevant in teaching about the impact of societal expectations on individuals and their mental health?
A) C. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
B) A. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
C) B. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) D. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  • 71. Which historical approach places the text as parallel to the relevant experiences of the author when the text was written? ***Actual March 2024 LET
A) B. Biographical criticism
B) D. New Criticism
C) C. Psychological criticism
D) A. Sociological criticism
  • 72. Which is known as the science of interpretation? ***Actual March 2024 LET
A) D. Literary criticism
B) B. Textual exegesis
C) C. Literary appreciation
D) A. Hermeneutics
  • 73. Which literary movement in the 19th century celebrated imagination, nature, and emotion, with poets like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge as key figures?
A) D. Naturalism
B) B. Realism
C) A. Romanticism
D) C. Classicism
  • 74. Characteristics of literature during the Renaissance period except _____. ***Actual September 2023 LE
A) D. individualistic
B) B. humanistic
C) A. religious
D) C. superfluous
  • 75. Which of the following is the sole concern of a New Critic?
A) C. the author’s life
B) A. the work itself
C) B. the reader’s response
D) D. the archetypes in the text
  • 76. Which of the following approaches shows that there is a dynamic interaction between the text and the reader? ***Actual March 2024 LET
A) C. Psychological criticism
B) B. Reader-response criticism
C) D. Biographical criticism
D) A. Gender criticism
  • 77. What did Renaissance criticism grow directly from?
A) D. The rise of humanism
B) B. The invention of the printing press
C) A. The recovery of classic texts
D) C. The exploration of new lands
  • 78. Who is frequently considered the first significant example of literary criticism?
A) B. Socrates
B) D. Homer
C) C. Plato
D) A. Aristotle
  • 79. The heroes in classical tragedy are bound for physical defeat but moral victory. What usually causes
    their defeat is an ordinary human failing. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is flawed with indecisiveness and Othello with gullibility. The titular character, Macbeth, is characterized by excessive pride. What literary term would mean excessive pride?
A) D. soliloquy
B) C. hubris
C) A. hamartia
D) B. peripety
  • 80. Who responded to Plato's indictment by emphasizing what is normal and helpful about literary art?
A) C. Thales
B) D. Alexander the Great
C) B. Socrates
D) A. Aristotle
  • 81. Who were banished from the hypothetical republic according to Plato?
A) D. Politicians
B) A. Poets
C) C. Scientists
D) B. Philosophers
  • 82. Which of the following is TRUE about formalism?
A) B. It uses quick reading to get the main idea of the text and compare it with other related works.
B) D. It focuses on the literary works as products of economic and ideological determinants of the specific era
C) C. It analyzes the work as a whole, the form of each individual part of the text from the individual scenes and chapters, elements, and literary devices.
D) A. It is concerned with the historical events outside of the story, cultural, and religious beliefs.
  • 83. According to Carl Jung, certain things can evoke a similar response among people of different races. This similar response is one of those which he calls as ____.
A) A. Archetypes
B) B. Unitypes
C) D. Collective Thoughts
D) C. Collective Schema
  • 84. It can also be inferred that the powerlessness that Aunt Jennifer depicted in the poem in the hands of “uncle” is also true to the women during the author’s time. This statement comes from a _____
A) A. Marxist critic
B) B. Reader's Response critic
C) C. Feminist critic
D) D. Historical-Biographical critic
  • 85. The fact that Young Goodman Brown “changed” from being a faithful and loving husband to a skeptic, gruesome, and lonesome being betrays everything he once stood for. Adopting a formalist standpoint, this shows that he is a _____.
A) B. Flat character
B) D. Round character
C) A. Dynamic character
D) C. Static character
  • 86. Who among the following is associated with the New Criticism?
A) C. Karl Marx
B) A. Hippolyte Taine
C) D. Carl Jung
D) B. John Crowe Ransom
  • 87. For Psychoanalytic critics, dreams are powerful catalysts for great ideas. Among the following, this is
    illustrated by ______.
A) A. John Milton
B) B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) C. Robert Browning
D) D. Edgar Allan Poe
  • 88. Formalism and Structuralism are literary theories that both lead to
A) B. a scientific textual interpretation
B) A. a subjective textual interpretation
C) C. an artistic textual interpretation
D) D. an intertextual interpretation
  • 89. A second-language learner of English says statue for statue and filum for film. In the given scenario, what morphophonemic process adds a vowel at the beginning of the word or between the sounds? ***Actual March 2024 LET
A) B. Elision
B) D. Metathesis
C) A. Assimilation
D) C. Epenthesis
  • 90. She is very very pretty. ***Actual September 2023 LET / Actual March 2024 LET
A) C. reduplication
B) D. predication
C) B. complementation
D) A. modification
  • 91. What is the process called when 'go' becomes 'went?' ***Actual September 2023 LET
A) C. addition
B) B. regular tense
C) D. suppletion
D) A. irregular tense
  • 92. How many years does a learner take to develop BICS? ***Actual September 2023 LET
A) A. 2 to 3 years
B) B. 4 to 5 years
C) C. 6 months to 2 years
D) D. 2 to three months
  • 93. What language nature describes language as primary made of verbal sounds produced by speech apparatus in the human body?
A) D. Language is socio-cultural
B) A. Language is vocal
C) B. Language is arbitrary
D) C. Language is a system
  • 94. Mary thinks that she is the only girl who can sing the song. Obviously, “she” refers to Mary. What concept in referential semantics explains the italicized word? ***Actual September 2023 LET
A) B. Anaphora
B) C. Co-reference
C) A. Deixis
D) D. Prototype
  • 95. Which of the following is a structure of modification in the sentence: She is very lucky woman to have received such a blessing.
A) D. she is
B) B. received such
C) A. a very lucky woman
D) C. to have
  • 96. It is a word or phrase whose meaning depends on their context of use i.e. you, there.
A) A. entailment
B) C. deixis
C) D. pronoun
D) B. presupposition
  • 97. Which group of linguistics who believed that language can be best described in terms of verifiable and observable data such as language behaviour and forms?
A) C. Interactionists
B) D. Structuralists
C) B. Transactionists
D) A. Transformationalists
  • 98. What communicative competence is shown by Alex when in his speech he wanted to use the word 'rummage', but he could not think of it so he used 'thorough search' instead?
A) C. Strategic
B) B. Discourse
C) D. Sociolinguistic
D) A. Linguistic
  • 99. When children start to explore their environment and intend to learn more about the world around them, they usually become very inquisitive and always throw questions. Which language function is
    described?
A) D. Heuristic
B) B. Imaginative
C) C. Personal
D) A. Expressive
  • 100. What is the smallest unit of linguistic meaning that is not further separable into smaller forms?
A) C. Allomorph
B) D. Lexeme
C) B. Morpheme
D) A. Morphology
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