Daraga Community College

Salvacion, Daraga, Albay

Final Examination in Stylistic and Discourse Analysis

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1. This term is concerned with language use in social contexts, and in particular with interaction
or dialogue between speakers.
a. Linguistics b. literary criticism c. stylistic analysis d. discourse analysis
2. This term refers to describe the orderliness, structure and sequential patterns of interaction.
a. Overlap b. turn-taking c. turn d. conversation
analysis
3. This refers to the opportunity to speak at the same point during a conversation.
a. Turn b. turn-taking c. overlap d. conversation analysis
4. This refers to the change of speaker during conversation.
a. Turn-taking b. turn c. conversation analysis d. overlap
5. This refers to more than one speaker talking at the same time in conversation.
a. Turn-taking b. overlap c. conversation analysisd. turn
6. This is a method of discourse analysis which draws on the anthropological field of
ethnography.
a. Setting and scene b. ethnography of communication c. act sequence d. ends
7. This refers to the time and place of speech act (physical circumstance).
a. Ends b. act sequence c. setting d. scene
8. This refers to the psychological setting or cultural definition of a scene.
a. Ends b. setting c. scene d. act sequence
9. This refers to the form and order of the event.
a. Ends b. setting c. scene d. act sequence
10. This is the basic assumption in conversation that each participant contribute appropriately, at
the required time to the current exchange of talk.
a. Cooperative principle b. implicature c. locutionary d. illocutionary
11. This is an inference about speaker’s intention.
a. Cooperative principle b. implicature c. locutionary d. illocutionary
12. This refers to the act of saying something; producing a meaningful linguistic expression.
a. Cooperative principle b. implicature c. locutionary d. illocutionary
13. This is the act of utterance with some kind of function in mind.
a. Cooperative principle b. implicature c. locutionary d. illocutionary
14. This an action performed by the use of an utterance to communicate.
a. Speech act b. perlocutionary c. locutionary d. illocutionary
15. This refers to the identification of patterns of usage in speech writing; usually made for the
purposes of commenting on quality and meaning in a text.
a. Linguistics b. literary criticism c. stylistic analysis d. discourse analysis
16. This refers to the evaluation, analysis, description or interpretation of literary works usually in
critical essay and in-depth reviews.
a. Linguistics b. literary criticism c. stylistic analysis d. discourse analysis
17. This refers to the study of language and its structure, including the study of morphology,
syntax, phonetics and semantics.
a. Linguistics b. literary criticism c. stylistic analysis d. discourse analysis
18. This describes the pattern of writing that distinguish the writer’s style, for example
capitalization, punctuation and spacing.
a. Phonological level b. grammatical level c. semantic level d. graphological level
19. This is the study of sound system of a language and describes formal rules of pronunciation
and utterance of different words.
a. Phonological level b. grammatical level c. semantic level d. graphological level
20. This refers to form, positioning and grouping of the elements that go to make up sentences.
a. Phonological level b. grammatical level c. sematic level d. graphological level
21. This refers to the study of meanings, interpretation of words, signs and sentence structure.
a. Phonological level b. grammatical level c. semantic level d. graphological level
22. This is the study of invisible meaning in a piece of texts spoken or written; includes linguistic
context, thematic context, pre-existing knowledge and physical context of the text.
a. Pragmatic level b. discourse level c. lexical level d. foregrounding
 23. This refers to the total amount of vocabulary items and use of words in a piece of text which
includes the individual words and idioms in different linguistic contexts.
a. Pragmatic level b. discourse level c. lexical level d. foregrounding
24. A figure of speech that uses “like” or “as” to compare dissimilar things is called.
a. Onomatopoeia b. simile c. metaphor d. personification
25. Imagery is ……….
a. When an author sets mental pictures/images in the reader’s head using words.
b. When an author compares two things. d. a cartoon show
c. Pictures hanging on the wall.
II. Poem Analysis.

Invictus
William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,

In the fell clutch of circumstance

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

It matters not how strait the gate,

26. Which of the following best describes the central theme of the text?
a. Identity is important in building self-confidence.
b. Independence means refusing to follow anyone else’s rules or laws.
c. Resilience is the ability to keep going and to refuse to give up.
d. Sacrifice is necessary to make someone a hero.
27. Given the context of the poem, what does the title “Invictus” most likely mean?
a. Careless b. undefeated c. lucky d. unfortune
28. Which of the following best describes the speaker of the poem Invictus?
a. A happy person who has just received good news.
b. An angry person who has experienced hard time.
c. A resilient person who has overcome difficult situations.
d. A mean who is not interested in the lives of others.
29. What is the meaning of the word menace as it is used in the poem?
a. Love b. help c. happiness d. threat
30. Who is the speaker in the poem? Cite lines to support your answer.
31. What parts of the poem show author’s heroic qualities.
32. The speaker does not wince nor cry aloud. What does this mean?
33. Are the ideas expressed in the poem optimistic or pessimistic? Why?
34. Do you think that a person holding the same philosophy of life as the speaker will succeed in
life? Why?
35. What was the most important thing you’ve learned from the poem?

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Prepared by:

RENATO M. MARBID
Instructor