ENG 161 STYLISTICS AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

1. Who author and scholar noted that discourse analysis is a study of real language by speakers in real-life situations?
a. Teun Van Dijk
b. Paul Sampson
c. The American author
d. None of the above
2. Who recognize phonology and graphology as the level of substance?
a. Haris
b. Mark Twain
c. Ahmadu Bello
d. M.A.K Halliday
3. How to differentiate the prose-fiction and poetry?
a. Prose is short story while poetry is not
b. Prose and poetry is similar and they don’t have difference
c. Prose is the most presentational while poetry is resemble our convention
d. Prose is from presenting while poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling
4. How conjunctive cohesion can be used in a sentence?
a. To connect the two ideas
b. To denotes a kind of substitution into zero
c. To denotes replacing a linguistic item with another
d. To use words to achieve unity in a text and apply the four varieties
5. What is the purpose of stylistic analysis?
a. Study of style and how message deliver
b. Examine how meaning in a text is created through a writer
c. Establish discourse peculiarities induce appreciation of discourse
d. The study of real language used by real speakers in real life situation
6. What are two major types of stylistics?
a. Choice and deviation
b. Man and conformity
c. Linguistics and literary stylistics
d. Phonological and graph logical
7. What is the difference between phonology and graphology?
a. Phonology deals with sound while graphology deals with graphic
b. Graphology deal with structure while phonology deal with spelling
c. Phonology deals with phonic while graphology deals with graphic
d. Both a and b
8. What do we call the higher rank than a phrase?
a. Unit
b. Phrase
c. Clause
d. Sentence
9. What is cohesion?
a. Has to do with sense, when a text or discourse makes sense
b. A functional grammar that relates to how texts are held together lexically
c. Aim of making what is familiar and unfamiliar in order to attract attention
d. None of the above
10. What are the three aspect of stylistics?
a. An emphasis on the aesthetic properties of language
b. The use of linguistics (study of language) to approach literary text
c. The discussion of texts according to objective criteria rather than subjective or impressionistic values
d. All of the above
11. Essay and notice are part of:
a. Text analysis
b. Speech events
c. Discourse analysis
d. Interpreting discourse
12. This is usually defined as the analysis of language “beyond the sentences”.
a. Coherence
b. Discourse analysis
c. Cohesive language
d. Interpreting discourse
13. This is what the writer intend to convey even though the text contains ungrammatical forms.
a. Cohesive
b. Coherence
c. Speech events
d. Interpreting discourse
14. Interview, commentaries and conversation are part of:
a. Cohesive
b. Coherence
c. Speech events
d. Discourse analysis
15. Tells the readers what we are doing in a sentence and help to guide them through our writing.
a. Coherence
b. Speech events
c. Discourse analysis
d. Cohesive devices
16. This refers to the meaningful connections that readers or listeners perceive in a written or oral text.
a. Speech
b. Analysis
c. Coherence
d. Cohesive devices
17. What are the differences between text analysis and discourse analysis?
a. They don’t have differences
b. One focuses on written language and the other on spoken language
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above
18. This refers to the use of linguistic devices to join sentences together, including conjunctions, reference words.
a. Analysis
b. Cohesion
c. Discourse
d. Cohesive devices
19. Which of the following refers to the way in which resources such as patterns of cohesion create both cohesive and
coherent texts?
a. Unity of text
b. Unity of texture
c. Unity of structure
d. Cohesion and Coherence
20.Which material preparation process where you jot down where the material comes from?
a. Code your material
b. Establish the context
c. Explore the production
d. Prepare your materials for analysis
21. Who first introduced discourse analysis as a way of
a. van Djik
b. Harry Zellieg
c. Zellig Hamis
d. M.A.K Halliday
22. What are the two main interests of the person who first introduced discourse analysis?
a. The examination of the relationship between coherence and cohesive texts and language in
sentence level.
b. The subjective construct of a text and the shared representations that language users draw
during discourse.
c. Connected discourse and context situation.
d. The examination of language beyond sentence and the relationship between linguistic and
nonlinguistic behavior.
23. Which of the following is NOT true in the statements below?
a. The primary purpose of discourse analysis is to provide a deeper understanding and
appreciation of texts and how they become meaningful to the users.
b. In order to understand the meaning of what a person says, we need to know something
about the educational background and skills of the person we are talking to.
c. Context is said to be an objective construct.
d. Society and discourse is often direct and do not depend on how language users themselves
define the genre or communicative event in which they engaged.
24. Which of the following refers to a specific lexical and grammatical choices made by speakers
depending on the situation context, the participants of a conversation and the function of the
language in the discourse?
a. Tenor
b. Discourse
c. Register
d. Mode
25. Which dimensions of register describes the people that take part in an event as well as their
relationships and statuses?
a. Tenor
b. Mode
c Field
d. Register
26. This dimension of register refers to the function of the text in the event.
a. Tenor
b. Mode
c. Field
d. Subject matter
27. Which of the following is TRUE about register?
a. It determines what we can mean as occasioned by what we are doing, with or to whom
and through which channel.
b. It tells how we specifically use language the same way in different contexts.
c. It is the specific language we use every day in our community, workplace and home,
d. All of the above.
28. What are some examples of registers in the field of wedding?
a. Left winger, eighteen-yard box and free kick.
b. Reception, minister, ring, and cutting of cake.
c. Remains, last rites, earth to earth and wake keeping.
d. Modules, lesson plans, instructional materials, and coloring materials.
29. What do you call a story that is said to be factual or a story that happens in real life?
a. Novella
b. Fiction
c. Non-Fiction
d. Documentary
30. If the story is imagined, what do you call it?
a. Short Story
b. Documentary
c. Fiction
d. Non-fiction
31. In linguistics, it is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting.
a. Creole
b. Dialect
c. Register
d. Archetype
32. It refers to a single, related chunk of lines in poetry which forms one particular faction in poetry.
a. Setting
b. Foot
c. Stanza
d. Rhythm
33. It examines oral and written texts in order to determine crucial characteristic linguistic properties, structure, and patterns
influencing perception of the text.
a. Stylistics
b. Linguistics
c. Literary criticism
d. Semantics
34. It is termed as an artistically motivated deviation.
a. Literature
b. Defamiliarization
c. Foregrounding
d. Estrangement
35. It is usually defined as the analysis of language “beyond the sentences”.
a. Coherence Interpreting
b. Discourse
c. Discourse analysis
d. Cohesive Language
36. It refers to the use of linguistic devices to join sentences together, including conjunctions, reference words
a. cohesion
b. cohesive devises
c. Analysis
d. Discourse
37. It is a type of communicative event in which speech is the main component.
a. texts
b. discourse
c. cohesion
d. speech events
38. It (stylistic device) is a reference to a concept, a person or an object that has served as a prototype of its kind and is the
original idea that has come to be used over and over again.
a. Archetype
b. Authorial
c. Intrusion Aphorism
d. Caesura
39. It is a literary device wherein the writer or author depicts the occurrence of specific events to the reader, which have
taken place before the present time the narration is following, or events that have happened before the events that are
currently being unfolded in the story.
a. Foil
b. Juxtaposition
c. Flashback
d. Inversion
40. It is a variety of speech closest to a standard prestige language.
a. Acrolect
b. Mesolect
c. Basilect
d. Creole
41. It is usually defined as the analysis of language “beyond the sentences”.
a. Coherence
b. Interpreting discourse
c. Discourse analysis
d. Cohesive language
42.Essay and notice are part of:
a. Text analysis
b. Discourse analysis
c. Interpreting discourse
d. Speech events
43. It is what the writer intend to convey even though the text contains ungrammatical forms.
a. Interpreting discourse
b. Coherence
c. Cohesive
d. Speech events
44. Interview, commentaries and conversation are part of:
a. Discourse analysis
b. Speech events
c. Coherence
d. Cohesive
45. Tell the reader what we are doing in a sentence and help to guide them through our writing.
a. Cohesive device
b. Coherence
c. Analysis
d. Speech
46. It refers to the meaningful connections that readers or listeners perceive in a written or oral text
a. Cohesive devices
b. Coherence
c. Analysis
d. Speech
47. What are de differences between text analysis and discourse analysis
a. one focuses on written language and the other on spoken language
b. they do not have differences
c. both a and b
d. none of the choices
48. It refers to the use of linguistic devices to join sentences together, including conjunctions, reference words
a. Cohesion
b. Cohesive devices
c. Analysis
d. Discourse
49. My father bought a Lincoln convertible. The car driven by the police was red. That color doesn’t suit her. She consists of
three letters. However, a letter isn’t as fast as a telephone call.  this is a example of:
a. Text analysis
b. Discourse analysis
c. Cohesive devices
d. Speech events
50. It is a type of communicative event in which speech is the main component.
a. Text
b. Discourse
c. Cohesion
d. Speech events
51. It studies functions of direct and figurative meaning
a. Stylistic
b. Lexical Stylsitic
c. Grammatical stylistic
d. Phono stylistic
52. This is the study of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation.
a. Stylistic
b. Lexical Stylsitic
c. Grammatical stylistic
d. Phono stylistic
53. It was subdivided into morphological and syntactical.
a. Stylistic
b. Lexical Stylsitic
c. Grammatical stylistic
d. Phono stylistic
54. It is a phonetical organization of prose and poetics text.
a. Stylistic
b. Lexical Stylsitic
c. Grammatical stylistic
d. Phono stylistic
55. This is known as the primarily a quality of writing.
a. Style
b. Individual style study
c. Both a and b
d. none of the above
56. Which statement is INCORRECT about literary stylistics?
a. It is synonymous to literary criticism, in a way.
b. Its ultimate purpose is to explain the individual message clear to others.
c. It is primarily concerned with messages and the interest in codes (language) lies in the meaning they convey in particular
instances.
d. It only explores the linguistic features of a text.
57. What analysis is this which involves the deployment of phonological units of segmental and suprasegmentals at one
level and those of the graphic substance of language—features relating to the writing system?
a. Graphological level
b. Phono-graphological
c. Phonological Level
d. Lexico- Semantic Level
58. It is a phonic substance wherein its unit consists of twenty vowels and twenty-four consonants. Which of the following is
referred to?
a. Segmental
b. Phonic
c. Sounds  
d. Suprasegmentals
59. The following are nonexamples of suprasegmental units. Which DOES NOT belong?
a. Voiceless consonants 
b. Diphthongs
c. Stress
d. Vowels
60. It studies functions of direct and figurative meaning
a. Stylistic
b. Lexical Stylistic
c. Grammatical stylistic
d. Phono stylistic
61. In doing discourse analysis, which step requires you to look at the structural features of the texts?
a. Examine the structure of the text.
b. Collect and examine discursive statements.
c. Code your material.
d. Establish the context.
62. Which material preparation process where you jot down where the material comes from?
a. Explore the production process
b. Establish the context.
c. Prepare your material for analysis.
d. Code your material.
63. Which of the following is said to be one of the cues needed to identify coherence in a discourse?
a. Knowledge of the world and conventional structure of interaction.
b. Knowledge of the language and its structure.
c. Wide perspective on coherence.
d. Knowing the difference between cohesion and coherence.
64. Which of the following best describes “foregrounding”?
a. It is an approach which provides a text with cohesion and coherence.
b. The term is used in the literary world to mean “aesthetic use of language”.
c. This is a framework which aims to analyze the uniqueness and aesthetic use of a text.
d. This concept refers to making certain features of a language prominent or noticeable in a text.
65. An author’s style is the product of a particular linguistic habit, conditioned by some social, cultural and ideological
environment. What goal of stylistics is being referred to the line above?
a. to establish peculiarities
b. to induce appreciation of discourse
c. to ascertain linguistic habits
d. to make critical judgments
66. Which of the following best describes “foregrounding”?
a. It is an approach which provides a text with cohesion and coherence.
b. The term is used in the literary world to mean “aesthetic use of language”.
c. This is a framework which aims to analyze the uniqueness and aesthetic use of a text.
d. This concept refers to making certain features of a language prominent or noticeable in a text
67. A word that changes for modify the meaning of a word such as "Beautiful woman".
a. Modifier
b. Qualifier
c. A and B
d. None of the above
68. It is the action or change in State.
a. Independent Clause
b. Dependent clause
c. Subject
d. Predicate
69. It is the designed as a stretch of grammatically coherent words without a subject and a finite verb. 
a. Group/phrase
b. Clause
c. Sentence
d. Cohesion
70. A clause is higher in rank than a phrase. Clause maybe defined as a group of grammatically coherent words with a
subject and a finite verb. 
a. Group phrase
b. Clause
c. Sentence
d. All of the above
71. It is the study of communication within the background of social and cultural practices and beliefs
a. Ethnography of communication
b. Phonology
c. Syntax
d. Morphine
72. Who said that the same discourse can be understood differently by different language users?
a. Milla
b. Miller
c. Van Djik
d. Din shel
73. What is critical Discourse Analysis?
a. An effort of passing process to give an explanation of a text and being reviewed by a person.
b. Any sort of approach to how units of speech larger than a sentence are structured.
c. It interpret the discourse as a social practice
d. All the mentioned above are correct
74. Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis consist of the following; except ____
a. Social and political issues are constructed and reflected in discourse
b. Power relations are negotiated and performed through discourse
c. Ideologies are produced and reflected in the use of discourse
d. None of the above
75. I met with Nathan and he asked me to pay him a visit. Which of the six ways in text cohesion is apply?
a. Referential Cohesion
b. Conjunctive Cohesion
c. Lexical Cohesion
d. Substitute Cohesion
76. We all drank water after eating a good dessert, which of the six ways in text cohesion is described?
a. Referential Cohesion
b. Conjunctive Cohesion
c. Lexical Cohesion
d. Substitute Cohesion
77. "She prayed and slept". If she is left unsaid in the second clause, , which of the six ways in text cohesion is described?
a. Referential Cohesion
b. Conjunctive Cohesion
c. Lexical Cohesion
d. Elliptical Cohesion
78.Mikaela had a permanent booking at the star Theatre but she decided not to go today. The statement is an example of
what?
a. Referential Cohesion
b. backward referencing
c. Forward referencing
d. Anaphoric
79. Which of the following is not part of Prose - fiction
a. Novel
b. Tragedy
c. Elegy
81. Which of the following relates to how texts are held together lexically and grammatically as a whole?
a. Parallelism
b. Cohesion
c. Coherence
d. Grammatical
82. Which of the following terms has to do with sense wherein text is called with this term if a discourse
makes sense to the readers?
a. Lexical cohesion
b. Coherence
c. Illocutionary
d. Cohesion
83. Which ways of giving a text cohesion uses pronouns or determiners to refer to the known nouns in
a text?
a. Parallelism
b. Elliptical
c. Substitution
d. Referential
84. Which poem is sung and/or accompanied with the playing of instrument?
a. Panegyric
b. Epic
c. Dirge
d. Lyrical
85. This form is said to have a dramatic presentation that not only ends on a lighthearted note with no
serious misfortunes, but also designed to create and involve humor.
a. Tragicomic
b. Funny play
c. Comic
d. All of the above
86. This term is said to be related to the explicit issues contained in a poem.
a. Language
b. Subject matter
c. Themes
d. Persona
87. Who said that the prominence in foregrounding is motivated?
a. Wales
b. Stern
c. Halliday
d. Quirk
88. In studying a poem, there are two things we expect it to have. What are these?
a. Themes and characters.
b. Themes and Subject matter
c. Language and themes
d. Subject matter and Language
89. This kind of story in drama ends so sadly that makes the audience feel pity for the characters.
a. Sad story
b. Tragicomic
c. Tragic
d. Lyrical
90. Whenever a poet adopts someone else’s personality in his writing, what kind of device he uses?
a. Characterization
b. Actor
c. Persona
d. Poet
91. It is the study of style and how message and meaning is communicated through language.
a. Stylistics Analysis
b. Discourse Analysis
c. Cohesion
d. Coherence
92. It is the study of real language used by real speakers in real situations.
a. Stylistics Analysis
b. Discourse Analysis
c. Cohesion
d. Coherence
93. When a text or discourse makes sense to a reader, the text is said to have_____?
a. Stylistics Analysis
b. Discourse Analysis
c. Cohesion
d. Coherence
94. It is a term of functional grammar that relates to how text are held together lexically and grammatically as a whole.
a. Stylistics Analysis
b. Discourse Analysis
c. Cohesion
d. Coherence
95. It is one of the most resembles kind of story telling activity.
a. Poetry
b. Drama
c. Prose-Fiction
d. Novel
96. It talks about strong feeling coming from the inspired mind.
a. Poetry
b. Drama
c. Prose-Fiction
d. Novel
97. It is designed to convey their messages in words, it is designed to present its statements in a combination of actions and
words.
a. Poetry
b. Drama
c. Prose-Fiction
d. Novel
98. The following is forms of Poetry EXCEPT:
a. Epic
b. Elegy
c. Dirge
d. Tragedy
99. The following is the Broad Subgenres of drama EXCEPT:
a. Tragedy
b. Comic play
c. Tragicomic
d. Novel
100. Which of the following is a way to hold on a turn?
a. Using signals *MMM” or “anyway”
b. Pause during an utterance rather than at the end of it.
c. Overlap
d. Use of falling intonation and then, pausing.