101.9 Language

System of verbal or gestural symbols a community uses to communicate is...

• English

• characters

• language

• expressions

___ is used to represent human experiences and to transmit messages… to describe, label, and share events

with others and to understand each

others’ perspectives.

• speeches

• books

• language

• none of these

____ refers to a tangible object; person, place, thing, event.

• abstract language

• concrete language

• thoughts

• culture

What are steps to ensure your presentation includes gender-neutral language?

• Check the definitions

• Work with someone with strong

  language skills or has a diverse identity

• Study the language

• All of these

Your oral speaking style should be ...

• Interactive

• Casual

• Repetitious

• All of these

A _____ is a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison of two things using the word like or as.

• homophone

• metaphor

• simile

• none of these

A ______ makes a comparison between two things by describing one thing as being something else.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• all of these

A mixed metaphor attributes human characteristics to animals, objects, or concepts.

• false

• true

A/an _____ is the placement of words in contrast or opposition to one another.

• metaphor

• antithesis

• parallelism

• alliteration

Which is not one of the corners of the semantic triangle of meaning?

• thought

• rhetoric

• referent

• symbol