ENG503 Final Term MCQs by Sir Zahid

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ENG503 FINAL TERM MCQS 2023-2024

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Q1. Which of the following is the second process of creative writing?

1. Beginning
2. Planning
3. Preparing
4. Incubation

Correct option: B) Planning Explanation: The first stage is " Preparing," and the second is " Planning," which involves research and premeditation before beginning the actual writing.

Q2. Most writers agree that the best way to write well and creatively is to write for ______.

1. Others
2. Yourself
3. Society
4. Nature

Correct option: B) Yourself Explanation: According to the handouts, " Most writers agree that the best way to write well creatively is to write for yourself".

Q3. Which of the following engines allow the users to select more than two aligned corpora?

1. Dual engine
2. Bilingual Engine
3. Sketch Engine
4. Search Engine

Correct option: C) Sketch Engine Explanation: Sketch Engine supports multilingual corpora and allows selection of more than two aligned corpora.

Q4. Is the following correct or incorrect? A “corpus” is a “body” of data, and linguists call their big data sets “corpora”.

1. Correct
2. Incorrect

Correct option: A) Correct Explanation: A corpus is a collection of language data; the plural is “corpora,” as defined in the handouts.

Q5. Over the past ______ decades, corpus evidence has not only been used in linguistic research but also in the teaching and learning of languages.

1. Four
2. Two
3. Three
4. Five

Correct option: C) Three Explanation: The handouts state, " Over the past three decades, corpus evidence has been used...".

Q6. In the writing processes, planning and preparation may overlap with the ______ stage.

1. Incubation
2. Beginning
3. Flowing
4. The silence reservoir

Correct option: A) Incubation Explanation: Planning and preparation stages can overlap with the incubation stage, which involves subconscious processing.

Q7. The acronym ICE stands for ______.

1. International Corpus of English
2. Intensive Corpus of Emerging Languages
3. International Corpus of Emerging Languages
4. Inclusive Corpus of English

Correct option: A) International Corpus of English Explanation: ICE refers to corpora containing different varieties of English like British, Indian, Singaporean, etc..

Q8. Which of the following types of corpus contain texts from different periods?

1. Multilingual corpus
2. Monolingual corpus
3. Diachronic corpus
4. Parallel corpus

Correct option: C) Diachronic corpus Explanation: Diachronic corpus contains texts from various time periods for studying language change.

Q9. Which dictionary defines fiction as, “literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people”?

1. The Chambers
2. Oxford
3. Merriam-Webster
4. Macquarie

Correct option: C) Merriam-Webster Explanation: The definition quoted is from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

Q10. The SECOND LAST stage in the process of creative writing is ______.

1. Breakthroughs and finish lines
2. Incubation
3. The silence reservoir
4. On titles