Stylistics Quiz

One way this principle can be looked at is through an analysis of who controls conversational interactions, who allows a person to speak and how they do this. Which principle of Discourse Analysis is being referred to?

The following are nonexamples of suprasegmental units. Which DOES NOT belong?

What is the primary focus of stylistics?

• Language Acquisition

• Literary History

• Literary Analysis

• Language Preservation

Which of the following refers to the way in which resources such as patterns of cohesion create both cohesive and coherent texts?

• Unity of texture

• Unity of text

• Unity of structure

• Cohesion and Coherence

The word "done" is usually a substitute of.

• Verb

• Clause

• Noun

• Subject

Who was the sociologist that was credited in founding conversational analysis?

• Harley Sacks

• Harris Quirk

• Harley Socks

• Harvey Sacks

Which of the following refers to violations on linguistic norms such as grammatical or semantic norms, strange metaphors, similes or collocations that are deployed to achieve special effects in a text?

• Contractions

• Deviation

• Prominence

• Flouting

He was a great man. What kind of element is the underlined letter?

• Complement

• Subject

• Adjunct

• Indirect Object

What is the dispreferred second pair part for "blame"?

• Acceptance

• Denial

• Admission

• Refusal

This term refers to breaking the normal rules of usage by over-frequency. Which of the following is referred to?

• Foregrounded

• Deviation

• Prominence

• Repetition