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