This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Speech Acts – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Speech Acts Quiz 10 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the function of the utterance "Please pass me the salt" ? A) Makes a polite request. B) Describes a situation. C) Expresses apology. D) Gives praise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Makes a polite request. 2. A teacher announces to her students: "You are all officially members of the school's debate team." After hearing this, the students cheer and clap with excitement. A) Illocutionary-Directive. B) Illocutionary-Expressive. C) Perlocutionary. D) Locutionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perlocutionary. 3. "We apologize for the delay of the program." A) Expressive. B) Directive. C) Commissive. D) Declarative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expressive. 4. In a direct speech act, the imperative functions as: A) Statement. B) Question. C) Order or request. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Order or request. 5. "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." -Fight Club, Tyler Durden A) Locutionary Act. B) Illocutionary Act. C) Perlocutionary Act. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perlocutionary Act. 6. Your mom is mad about dad's excuse of being late to dinner. What does she likely say? A) Let's stick with being single. B) Give me a break. C) I will holler about your lateness from the rooftops. D) I would never dream of being angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Give me a break. 7. Choose the classification of speech act that best corresponds to the given expression:You will no longer work in my department, for you will be assigned to another department. A) Declarations. B) Representatives. C) Expressives. D) Commissives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Declarations. 8. "I pledge to donate $ 500 to your favorite charity." A) Assertive. B) Directive. C) Commissive. D) Expressive. E) Declaration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commissive. 9. A speaker carriesout nomination to collaboratively and productively establish a topic A) NOMINATION. B) REPAIR. C) TOPIC CONTROL. D) TERMINATION. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NOMINATION. 10. What is the correct combination between the classification of Austin and Searle? A) Behabitive $\rightarrow$ Directive. B) Exercitive $\rightarrow$ Commitment. C) Commitment $\rightarrow$ Assertion. D) Expositive $\rightarrow$ Expressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exercitive $\rightarrow$ Commitment. 11. What type of illocutionary act is represented by the sentence: "I promise to pay you on Tuesday" ? A) Commissive. B) Directive. C) Declarative. D) Expressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commissive. 12. Which speech act involves the speaker expressing their feelings or emotions? A) Expressives. B) Directives. C) Commissives. D) Declarations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expressives. 13. What are the characteristics of expressive illocutionary speech acts? A) Expression of facts and information. B) Expression of emotions, feelings, or attitudes. C) Expression of silence. D) Expression of physical actions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expression of emotions, feelings, or attitudes. 14. What are performative verbs that explicitly name the illocutionary act being performed called? A) IFIDs. B) Felicity Conditions. C) General Conditions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) IFIDs. 15. What is the essential question of Lesson 4:Perlocution? A) How can we improve our speaking skills?. B) How can the speech context affect the receiver's understanding of a speech act?. C) What are the different types of speech acts?. D) How can we ensure our message is always understood?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How can the speech context affect the receiver's understanding of a speech act?. 16. These include promising, threatening, offering, refusal, pledges. A) Representatives. B) Directives. C) Commissives. D) Expressives. E) Declarations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commissives. 17. After hearing, "It's time for bed, " a child goes to sleep. Which speech act is observed here? A) Locutionary. B) Illocutionary. C) Perlocutionary. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perlocutionary. 18. When someone says, "Congratulations on your achievement, " what type of speech act is this? A) Locutionary. B) Illocutionary. C) Perlocutionary. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Illocutionary. 19. Which of the following statements is an assertive act? A) I promise to help you. B) You are hired!. C) No one makes better pancakes than I do. D) Please close the door. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) No one makes better pancakes than I do. 20. Identify the tag question: A) The weather is nice today, isn't it?. B) What a great movie it was!. C) Why did she leave early?. D) Please close the door. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The weather is nice today, isn't it?. 21. A teacher tells the class, "Please submit your projects tomorrow." What is the illocutionary act? A) The students felt pressured. B) The students promised to submit. C) The teacher wants the students to obey. D) The teacher said the words "Submit your projects tomorrow.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The teacher wants the students to obey. 22. According to Austin's Speech theory, illocutionary acts refer to one of the following. A) The effects produced in the listener/reader on hearing/reading illocutionary act. B) The intention the speaker has when saying or writing something. C) The act of saying or writing something in language using literal content words. D) B and c. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B and c. 23. Don't try to disobey me or else ..... A) Expressive. B) Declarative. C) Commissive. D) Representative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commissive. 24. Choose the correct type of speech act for each sentence. 7. "I'll give you a reason to cry." A) Request. B) Threat. C) Order. D) Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Threat. 25. What type of speech act is performed when someone states a fact, provides information, or makes an assertion? A) Commissives. B) Representatives. C) Expressives. D) Declarations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Representatives. ← 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