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A Level English Language Final Quiz
A Level English Language Final Quiz
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A quiz that tests terminology in both written and spoken language
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1
What do you call someone who believes that language should never change?
Nativist
Prescriptivist
Behaviourist
Descriptivist
2
Bishop's Finger is a type of what?
Carrot
Religious garment
Beer
Cheese
3
When would you use a semi colon?
To add more information into a sentence
To join two sentences together that are opposites
To join two sentences together that are about the same thing
At the beginning of a list
4
What do we call an individual part of a word when written like 'pork - y'?
A phoneme
A syllable
A morpheme
A bit
5
Which of these is not a bound morpheme?
En
Ly
Able
In
6
Which sentence type is the one with commas in?
Compound
Minor
Simple
Complex
7
On a transcript, how would you identify a word written phonetically?
Diagonal slashes
Written in capitals
Written in brackets
In square parentheses
8
In the phonetic alphabet, what sound does
ʃ
describe?
Ju
Sh
Gr
Ch
9
As of this morning, which of these MPs is the ONLY one still left in the race to replace Boris Johnson?
Jeremy Hunt
Suella Braverman
Michael Gove
Nadhim Sahawi
10
It'll soon be Christmas. Many families eat a turkey on the day but the bird isn't native to Britain. Where's it from?
Germany
America
Turkey
Australia
11
Which of these is NOT an acronym?
Radar
Scuba
Laser
BBC
12
What word class is 'although'?
Pronoun
Preposition
Conjunction
Determiner
13
Queen Elizabeth III has just held her platinum jubilee. How many years is that?
60
65
None of these
70
14
Which of these words means to show mercy?
Clemency
Tintinabulation
Euphemism
Exculpate
15
What does non-rhotic mean?
When the 'r' sound in a word is not pronounced.
When the -ing sound at the end of a word is pronounced.
When the -ing sound at the end of a word is not pronounced.
When the 'r' sound in a word is pronounced.
16
Which town did Philip Trudgill study?
Northampton
Norwich
None of these
Nuneaton
17
What do you call a word like 'bittersweet'?
Collocation
Oxymoron
Convergent
Deixis
18
Barring accidents, which of these people is NOT an heir to the throne?
Harry
Charles
William
George
19
Which of these is NOT a Gricean maxim?
Relativity
Quantity
Manner
Quality
20
Which of these is NOT a prosodic feature?
Speed
Volume
Pace
Pause
21
Who came up with the 'innateness' theory?
Noam Chomsky
Bard and Sachs
Howard Giles
Norman Fairclough
22
What is an imperative?
An order
A statement
A question
An emotional response
23
Which of these is NOT a Language Level?
Morphology
Lexis
Pragmatics
Semantics
24
Alexander is Boris Johnson's first name. Boris is one of his two middle names. What is the other one?
De Lorean
De Pfeffel
Da Baby
Da Phatphibber
25
Which of these songs is the odd one out?
Green Green Grass Of Home
Purple Haze
Little Red Corvette
Raspberry Beret
26
Why is the coronavirus called Covid-19?
It is the 19th variant of this particular virus.
It was discovered in 2019
It takes 19 days from infection to (hopefully) recovery
It originated in Wuhan - China's 19th biggest city.
27
'Do you know what I hate? Quiz quizzes on English Language, that's what!' Of which of these is this an example?
Hyperbole
Hypernym
Hypophora
Hyponym
28
Which of these sentence types is the odd one out?
Declarative
Transactional
Interrogative
Imperative
29
What child language term describes when a child calls more than one object by the same word?
Overextension
Prosodic feature
Hypertension
Tintinabulation
30
What do we call a dialect made up of the merging of two distinct languages?
Diglossic
Creole
Pidgin
Mutated
31
Who is at number one in the singles charts?
Harry Styles
Kate Bush
Beyonce
LF System
32
Who invented Face Theory?
Robin Lakoff
Brown and Levinson
Erving Goffman
H.P Grice
33
In a transcript, what does // signify?
An interruption
A pause
A filled pause
A latch on
34
What do we call the part of Grammar that looks at word endings?
Morphemes
Inflections
Syntax
Suffixes
35
Who is the Vice President of the USA?
Nancy Pelosi
Liz Chaney
Michelle Obama
Kamala Harris
36
Who came up with the 'Genderlect' theory?
Deborah Tannen
Debra Tannen
Devora Tanner
Deborah Tanner
37
What do we call the period when children give two-word responses?
Telegraphing
Parallelism
Paraphrasing
Babbling
38
What do we call the individual part of a word based on its sound ?
Phoneme
Morpheme
Prosodic feature
Syllable
39
What kind of word class is 'always'?
Determiner
Pronoun
Adverb
Verb
40
The new Jurassic World film has just come out. What is its title?
Jurassic World: Desperation
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic World: Extinction
Jurassic World: Dominion
41
Who sent the world's first email?
Tim Berners Lee (the inventor of the Internet)
Queen Elizabeth II
Stephen Hawking
The Pope
42
How many types of verb are there?
Three
Two
Four
Five
43
In a transcript, what sound does the symbol Ⲑ signify?
Th
Pr
Sh
Ch
44
What theory did Howard Giles create?
Communication Accommodation Theory
Face Theory
Imitation and Reinforcement
Negative and Positive Politeness
45
What language level includes similes and sarcasm?
Pragmatics
Semantics
Grammar
Lexis
46
Which of these is NOT a shade of green?
Jade
Mint
Emerald
Teal
47
What does the 'V' in 'AAVE' stand for?
Veritable
Vernacular
Verisimilitude
Vehicular
48
What does pejoration mean?
A word that used to mean a good thing now means a bad thing.
A word that used to mean a bad thing now means a good thing.
A word that used to mean one thing now means something different.
A word that went out of usage but has now come back into use
49
In 1999, the first emoji was used. What was it?
A poo
A smiley face
A thumbs up sign
A crying with laughter face
50
Which of these is NOT an intransitive verb
Breathe
Hit
Walk
Sing
51
Which of these terms describes how a word makes you feel?
Collocation
Presdigitation
Connotation
Denotation
52
What punctuation mark links two words to create a compound adjective?
Colon
Hyphen
Dash
Semi-colon
53
After The Bible and the Koran, which is the best selling book of all time, clocking up an amazing 120 million copies?
Pride and Prejudice
The Da Vinci Code
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Lord of the Rings
54
The Americans call it an eggplant. What do we call it?
A pineapple
A celery plant
A mushroom
An aubergine
55
"It's a hot day, don't you think?" is a example of what?
A rhetorical question
A hedge
A tag question
An adjacency pair
56
Which of these is NOT an open class word class?
Pronoun
Verb
Determiner
Adjective
57
I have asked you to , at least, start thinking about your coursework option. What percentage of your final grade is it?
20
15
25
33
58
Which of these was a New York department store studied by Labov?
Saks Fifth Avenue
Sacks Fourth Avenue
Saks Sixth Avenue
Sacks Fifth Avenue
59
Which of these is not an abstract noun?
Fidelity
Beverley
Loyalty
Honesty
60
The President of the USA is Joe Biden. What is his middle name?
DeLancey
Robinette
Beauregard
Keith
