This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Speech Acts – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Speech Acts Quiz 15 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which type of speech act includes promises, offers, and threats? A) Directives. B) Representatives. C) Expressives. D) Commissives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commissives. 2. What are the main types of illocutionary speech acts? A) Commands, requests, demands. B) Assertives, directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations. C) Questions, answers, discussions. D) Statements, exclamations, interjections. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assertives, directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations. 3. The indirect speech acts can not be used to make polite requests. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. Theo Austin (1962), the act of expressing words with a specific meaning is called what? A) Commissive act. B) Locutionary act. C) Perlocutionary act. D) Illocutionary act. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Illocutionary act. 5. When Anna says, "I can't believe you did that, " what type of speech act is she using? A) Locutionary. B) Constative. C) Illocutionary. D) Perlocutionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Illocutionary. 6. ..... is speech act that state how the speaker feels and express psychological states A) Expressive. B) Representative. C) Directive. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expressive. 7. The principal says, "I now declare this event officially open." A) Locutionary. B) Illocutionary. C) Perlocutionary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Illocutionary. 8. "I hereby testify that I sold that property on July 3, 2021." A) Assertive. B) Directive. C) Expressive. D) Declaration. E) Commissive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assertive. 9. David misunderstood Kent's response to his question. What's the best repair strategy? A) "Never mind, it doesn't matter.". B) "You're wrong, just listen.". C) "Ignore the misunderstanding.". D) "Sorry, let me rephrase that more clearly.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Sorry, let me rephrase that more clearly.". 10. Which of the following utterance DOES NOT contain a performative verb? A) 'I congratulate you on passing the exam.'. B) 'I think he has a point.'. C) 'I apologize for breaking the vase.'. D) 'I admit taking your money.'. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 'I think he has a point.'. 11. ..... are the circumstances surrounding the utterance. A) Speech events. B) Locutionary. C) Perlocutionary. D) Speech acts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speech events. 12. "To infinity and beyond!" -Toy Story, 1995 A) Locutionary Act. B) Illocutionary Act. C) Perlocutionary Act. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Locutionary Act. 13. What type of Speech Act is:'' Jane, I'd like you to re-do this document as there are several mistakes in it" A) Expressive. B) Commissive. C) Declaration. D) Assertive. E) Directives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assertive. 14. I now appoint you as the chairman of the board. A) Representative. B) Expressive. C) Directive. D) Commissive. E) Declaration. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Declaration. 15. What word do exclamative sentences usually begin with? A) When. B) Who. C) If. D) What or How. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What or How. 16. After someone says, "Turn off the lights, please, " the lights are turned off. This demonstrates which speech act? A) Perlocutionary. B) Directive. C) Illocutionary. D) Locutionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perlocutionary. 17. Is the effect that the utterance has on the behavior, thoughts, and feelings of the listener, whether it was meant to or not. A) Locutionary Act. B) Illocutionary Act. C) Perlocutionary Act. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perlocutionary Act. 18. A friend tells you: "I promise to help you with your project tomorrow after school." What type of speech act does this represent? A) Directive. B) Locutionary. C) Commissive. D) Expressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commissive. 19. What is the effect of using a passive form with an impersonal NG subject? A) It makes the performative more explicit. B) It avoids invoking power and status. C) It changes the meaning of the performative. D) It has the same effect as an active form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It has the same effect as an active form. 20. What is the perlocutionary force of the utterance: "I'm sorry for your loss." A) The speaker is making an apology for the listener's loss. B) The listener is using an affirmative sentence. C) The speaker is consoling the listener. D) The listener may feel comforted and supported during a difficult time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The listener may feel comforted and supported during a difficult time. 21. When someone declares "I now pronounce you husband and wife, " this is an example of which speech act? A) Directives. B) Representatives. C) Commissives. D) Declarations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Declarations. 22. Perlocutionary act focuses on the recognition that something has been uttered. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 23. Choose the correct answerThe type of presupposition that a speaker has when uttering: "When did she travel to the USA?" is A) Factive presupposition. B) Lexical presupposition. C) Structural presupposition. D) Non-factive presupposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Structural presupposition. 24. What kind of speech act?"The earth is flat." A) Expressives. B) Commissives. C) Representatives. D) Declarations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Representatives. 25. Someone's anger caused by hearing someone else's remarks is a form of perlocutionary act. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 26. When Agatha says "So good to see you" which speech acts is she performing? A) Expressive. B) Directive. C) Commissive. D) Representative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expressive. 27. In the dialogue, when Victor says:He makes furniture!" , what type of speech act is he performing? A) Direct Speech Act. B) Indirect Speech Act. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct Speech Act. 28. During a formal presentation, the speaker says, "I urge you to consider the implications of this decision." What type of speech act is this? A) Perlocutionary. B) Performative. C) Locutionary. D) Illocutionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Illocutionary. 29. UNDER 6 VERBAL COMMUNICATION FACTORSconveys information about the world A) Metalingual. B) Referential. C) Phatic. D) Emotive. E) Conative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Referential. 30. A student says, "The Earth revolves around the sun." This is an example of: A) Assertive. B) Declarative. C) Commissive. D) Expressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assertive. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesSpeech Acts Quiz 1Speech Acts Quiz 2Speech Acts Quiz 3Speech Acts Quiz 4Speech Acts Quiz 5Speech Acts Quiz 6Speech Acts Quiz 7Speech Acts Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books