Phonetics
Syntax
Figures of Speech
Type of texts
Miscelaneous
100

Provide a phonetic transcription of FENZY

ˈfrenzi

100

What is the main function of an adverb?

Adjunct

100

What figure of speech contains "like" or "as"

Simile

100

Which two categories can you find when talking about REGISTER?

Open and Close

100

Who wrote A University Grammar of English in 1990

Quirk and Greenbaum

200

Provide a phonetic transcription of REINFORCEMENT  

/ ˌriːɪnˈfɔːsmənt/

200

What part of the speech is AND?

Conjunction

200

"The sun smiled down on the children playing in the park"

Personification

200

Anaphora and cataphora are types of..?

           

Endophoric reference

200

Who wrote "AGNES GREY"

Ann Brönte

300

Provide a phonetic transcription of MISCHIEVOUS  

/ˈmɪstʃɪvəs/

300

What are the two positions of an adjective?

Attributive and Predicative

300

The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit

Euphemism

300

What type of text has as its main objective to explain or to clarify?

EXPOSITORY

300

What was the name of the a land inhabited by tiny people in "Guillever Travels"?

Liliput

400

Provide the speeling for /ˈkɝːnəl/ 

COLONEL

400

What is IT called in an inversion?

Dummy IT

400

"A million dollars is no small chunk of change."

Litotes

400

What text genre narrates part of somebody's life?

Memoir

400

Who wrote The Heart of Darkness??

Joseph Conrad

500

Provide the transcription of WORCESTERSHIRE


/ˈwʊstərʃə/

500

"Comment Adverbs" are adjuncts, conjuncts or disjuncts?

DISJUNCTS

500

A.............. is a series of three members: "Eye it, try it, buy it!"

tricolon

500

Who first eleborate a text typology classification?

J. M. Adams

500

Who wrote "The Profundis"?

Oscar Wilde