EXPRESSIVE MEANS
What is the main purpose of expressive means in language?
To make speech more emotional, vivid, and expressive.
What does the idiom “burning the midnight oil” mean?
Working or studying late at night.
What is the smallest unit of sound in a language?
Phoneme
Which stylistic device is used
A small infinity of a moments
Oxymoron
Which expressive means uses strong synonyms like “huge” or “tiny”?
Lexical expressive means
What does the idiom “to throw someone under the bus” mean?
To betray someone to save yourself or gain advantage
What is the main function of morphology?
To study the structure and formation of words
He was brave enough to admit he wasn’t brave at all?
Paradox
Breaking regular word order for emphasis (e.g., “Beautiful she is”) is which expressive means?
Inversion
What does the idiom “a storm in a teacup” mean?
big emotional reaction to something unimportant; an exaggerated problem.
Words borrowed from other languages are called what?
Loanword
Which device is used in the progression “He trembled, he collapsed, he vanished”?
Climax
What expressive means uses stress, pitch, and intonation?
Phonetic expressive means
What does the idiom “to sweep something under the carpet” mean?
To hide or ignore a problem instead of dealing with it.
What is semantic change?
A shift in a word’s meaning over time
Which device appears in the pattern “He laughed in joy, he cried in pain, he lived in fear”?
Parallelism
Modal verbs like must, may, should belong to which expressive means?
Grammatical expressive means
What does the idiom “the ball is in your court” mean?
It’s your turn to make a decision or take action
What is an accent?
This term refers to the pronunciation difference between individuals of the same language, often influenced by region or social group.
Which device appears in “He is no stranger to failure”?
Litota