Metaphrase means: half translation None of the others word-for-word translation free translation.
Translationese is a synonym for a very literal translation None of the others a synonym for a too free translation a nationality.
With explicitation the translator: None of the others adds elements in order to facilitate the comprehension explains a difficult sentence reorders the elements in a sentence to make it easier.
With substitution the translator: replaces an item with its equivalent in the target language None of the others substitutes a word with its calque in the target language freely changes a word that he doesn’t like.
The hardest texts to translate are: the scientific ones biographies None of the others the poetry ones.
Oblique translations comprehend: None of the others adaptations literal translations calques.
The translation technique: is the same for all texts changes if a text is more difficult None of the others needs to adapt to the text in object.
Connotative meaning refers to: the basic meaning of a word the literal translation of a word None of the others the emotional reaction provoked by a word.
Advertising refers to: publicity in television a specific label or brand the general phenomenon of publicity None of the others.
Advertising uses: informal language formal language None of the others a very boring language.
Colloquial language: makes the audience feel closer to the advertisement creates distance makes people from different countries feel closer None of the others.
Conative function: influences the addressee’s behaviour makes people sick None of the others uses allegories.
Comparatives: convey the idea that a product is better than others make comparisons between people None of the others compare two advertisements.
"You" None of the others is the most used word in advertisements is never used in advertisements is used to create distance.
Pragmatics: studies a language use in context analyses grammar None of the others studies languages from a theoretical point of view.
Performative verbs: indicate a performance have the purpose to do something None of the others influences the addressee’s behaviour.
Grice's cooperative principle: None of the others describes how people cooperate to create a project describes a cooperative association describes how people cooperate between them to understand each other.
The maxim of manner: None of the others suggests to be polite suggests to be clear and brief suggests to be unclear and long-winded.
Newspapers: are prepared weeks before the news come out None of the others are all of the same typology follow news and events that happen within 24 hour time.
Tabloids: are sensational and focus on emotional details focus on facts and information None of the others belong to the ‘elite’ and ‘serious’ press.
An aim is: The thing that someone is trying to achieve What you want achieve when you do something Something that a person or organization hopes to achieve in the future The reason why you do something.
A purpose is: Something that a person or organization hopes to achieve in the future The reason why you do something What you want achieve when you do something The thing that someone is trying to achieve.
An objective is: The thing that someone is trying to achieve The reason why you do something Something that a person or organization hopes to achieve in the future What you want achieve when you do something.
A goal is The thing that someone is trying to achieve The reason why you do something What you want achieve when you do something Something that a person or organization hopes to achieve in the future.
A target is: None of the others Something that you intend to do The thing someone hopes to achieve The exact result that a person intends to achieve.
An intention is: Something that you intend to do The exact result that a person intends to achieve None of the others The thing someone hopes to achieve.
A mission is: The exact result that a person intends to achieve The thing someone hopes to achieve Something that you intend to do None of the others.
Exactly means: No more and no less than a particular number Exactly in a particular position None of the others On time.
Directly means: None of the others Exactly in a particular position The thing someone hopes to achieve The direction of something.
Confident means: Determined Sure that something good will happen Sure that something is true because you have enough information to make a decision None of the others.
Satisfied means: Sure that something is true because you have enough information to make a decision Happy Sure that something good will happen None of the others.
To plunge means: To suddenly decrease To connect None of the others To gradually decrease.
To dwindle means: None of the others To gradually decrease To decrease by a half To suddenly decrease.
To diminish means: None of the others To make something smaller in size To decrease to a low number, amount or level To lower the volume.
To reduce means: None of the others To cut out something To make something smaller in size To decrease to a low number, amount or level.
To level out: Means to balance something Means to stop decreasing and remain at the same level None of the others Means to reach the lowest point and stop decreasing any more.
To bottom out: Means to fall on your bottom Means to reach the lowest point and stop decreasing any more None of the others Means to stop decreasing and remain at the same level.
An effect is: A change caused by something The effect that something has on people's opinions or behaviour None of the others The effect that something has.
An impact is: A change caused by something None of the others The effect that something has on people's opinions or behaviour The effect that something has.
An influence is: None of the others The effect that something has on people's opinions or behaviour The effect that something has A change caused by something.
Side effects are: The unwanted effects that something has in addition to its good effects A change caused by something The bad effects that happen later as result of an event which continue long afterwards None of the others.
Repercussions are: None of the others A change caused by something The unwanted effects that something has in addition to its good effects The bad effects that happen later as result of an event which continue long afterwards.
To emphasize: Means to show clearly that something is true Means to show that something is particularly important Means to say firmly that something is particularly important None of the others.
To highlight: Means to show clearly that something is true Means to show that something is particularly important Means to say firmly that something is particularly important None of the others.
To underline: None of the others Means to say firmly that something is particularly important Means to show that something is particularly important Means to show clearly that something is true.
To explain means: To make something clearer To give someone the information that they need in order to understand something None of the others To say firmly that something is particularly important.
To clarify means: To make something clearer To give someone the information that they need in order to understand something To add more details None of the others.
In my opinion is used: When you think that something is probably true None of the others When you don't want to give your opinion about something When you are giving your opinion about something.
It seems to me that is used when: When you don't want to give your opinion about something When you think that something is probably true None of the others When you are giving your opinion about something.
To peak means: Stop increasing, after reaching a high level To stop increasing, and remaing at the same level To reach the top of something None of the others.
To level off: Stop increasing, after reaching a high level To stop increasing, and remaing at the same level None of the others To reach the top of something.
A pretext is: A reason that you give to try to explain why you did something bad A false reason that someone gives in order to hide their real reason for doing something The effect that something has on people's opinions or behaviour None of the others.
An excuse is: The main idea on which something is based A reason that you give to try to explain why you did something bad A false reason that someone gives in order to hide their real reason for doing something None of the others.
Because: Is a conjunction that opposes a reason to something Is used when giving the reason for something None of the others Is used to give the reason why something has happened.
Due to: None of the others Is a conjunction that opposes a reason to something Is used when giving the reason for something Is used to give the reason why something has happened.
Thus: None of the others Means 'as a result' Means 'because' Means 'for this reason'.
Hence: Means 'because' Means 'for this reason' Means 'as a result' None of the others.
A problems is: None of the others Something difficult you must do or deal with A situation that must be dealt with because it causes harm or inconvenience A subject that is important and needs to be discussed.
An issue is: A situation that must be dealt with because it causes harm or inconvenience A subject that is important and needs to be discussed None of the others Something difficult you must do or deal with.
A challenge is: None of the others A subject that is important and needs to be discussed A situation that must be dealt with because it causes harm or inconvenience Something difficult you must do or deal with.
A trouble is: A problem that makes something difficult An additional problem that makes a bad or difficult situation even harder to deal with None of the others Something that happens which stops you making progress.
A complication is: A problem that makes something difficult An additional problem that makes a bad or difficult situation even harder to deal with None of the others Something that happens which stops you making progress.
Related means: That two things are correlated and one causes the other That two things are directly connected between them That two things have some kind of connection between them None of the others.
Linked means: That two things are directly connected between them That two things are correlated and one causes the other None of the others That two things have some kind of connection between them.
To contradict means: To prove that something is untrue That a statement or study makes the other one seem completely untrue or impossible To prove that something is completely wrong None of the others.
To demolish means: To prove that something is completely wrong None of the others That a statement or study makes the other one seem completely untrue or impossible To prove that something is untrue.
An experiment is: A test to find out something A test to find out if a new drug or product is safe or effective A scientific test to find out what happens when you do something None of the others.
A trial is: A test to find out if a new drug or product is safe or effective None of the others A test to find out something A scientific test to find out what happens when you do something.
An advantage is: A good feature that something has, which makes it better None of the others A feature of something that has a good effect on people's lives A good feature that something has.
A benefit is: A good feature that something has None of the others A feature of something that has a good effect on people's lives A good feature that something has, which makes it better.
A merit is: A good feature that something has A good feature that something has, which makes it better A feature of something that has a good effect on people's lives None of the others.
A consensus is: An agreement None of the others An agreement between most of the people in a group Things that people agree about.
A common ground is: An agreement None of the others An agreement between most of the people in a group Things that people agree about.
An aim is: The reason why you do something What you want to achieve when you do something None of the others The thing someone is trying to achieve.
A purpose is: The thing someone is trying to achieve What you want to achieve when you do something The reason why you do something None of the others.
An objective is: The thing someone is trying to achieve None of the others The reason why you do something What you want to achieve when you do something.
A goal is: None of the others Something that you intend to do Something that someone hopes to achieve in the future The exact result that someone intends to achieve.
To lead to means: To achieve something To make something happen To start a process that later makes something happen None of the others.
To result in means: To start a process that later makes something happen To make something happen None of the others To achieve something.
A source is: The original cause of something None of the others The beginning of something Something that causes something else to develop.
Unlike: None of the others Is used when saying something is not true Is used when saying that people or things are different Is used when you don't like someone or something.
To differ means: None of the others Being physically different from somebody else When you disagree with someone To have different opinions about something.
A dispute is: A serious disagreement in which two people argue with each other None of the others A polite disagreement between two people An agreement between most of the people in a group.
Crucial means: Something religious Something extremely important Something not important None of the others.
To set out: None of the others Means to add more details to an information Means to explain facts in a clear and planned way Means to explain the main ideas of something.
To clarify means: To add more details to an information None of the others To explain something To make something clearer.
To cite means: To mention something with details To give someone or something a example None of the others To report someone's words.
An exception is: None of the others Someone or something that is different from the others The example of a theory The opinion someone has about something.
Short notes are: None of the others Short vocal notes we send with our smartphones Short messages we send with our smartphones All the brief messages or writings we use to communicate.
Short notes must be: Brief, not too formal and direct Long, very formal and unpolite Short, formal and polite None of the others.
Within instructions there is abundance of: Active tense Passive tense Modal verbs None of the others.
In retirement cards: You have to write congratulatory wishes but sad messages You don't have to refer personally to the person None of the others You have to write encouraging messages and congratulatory wishes.
Birthday greetings: Should first contain a reference to the age and then to the person None of the others Should focus on the person, not on the age Shouldn't be too personal.
Ferdinand de Saussure put the basis for the progress of Linguistics: in the 19th century in the 16th century in the 20th century None of the others.
Saussure coined the terms 'langue' and 'parole'. 'Parole' refers to: None of the others The speech of a group of professionals The speech of an individual The speech of a community.
Phonology studies: None of the others The sound patterns that occur inside and outside the languages The sound patterns that occur only in verbal languages The sound patterns that occur within all languages.
The main exponent of Phonology was: Ferdinand de Saussure Leonard Bloomfield Jan Baudouin de Courtenay None of the others.
Phonemes are: None of the others The biggest units of sound The smallest units of sound Chunks of a sentence.
What are allophones? None of the others Different sounds of the same letter Different words pronounced in the same way Different letters for the same sound.
Phonetics is concerned with: Linguistic abstractions and categorizations of sounds None of the others The physical aspects of sounds Studying how a sound is written.
Vowels can be divided into the following categories: None of the others Lateral Open Bilabial.
A lect is: None of the others A short version of "lecture" A synonym for language variety The Latin word for "read".
Pidgins: Are fully formed languages Mean "pidgeons" in Chinese None of the others Develop between groups that don’t speak the same language.
Ordinary people: are passive recipients of politics don't care about politics are active recipients of politics None of the others.
Metaphors: None of the others are used in common life have an important role in politics are used only in advertising.
Euphemisms: are used for specific subjects such as war None of the others are not used in politics are used all the time in political speeches.
Coercion: is not only linguistic None of the others is only linguistic is physical.
the rhetorical purpose: wants to gain the audience's attention and to gain trust None of the others tells lies wants only the attention of the audience.
the empathetic purpose: None of the others wants to move people wants to evoke positive feelings towards the speaker wants to create hate between the audience.
the heuristic purpose: doesn't care if the audience doesn't understand None of the others simplifies some concepts to make them easier to understand complicates easy concepts.
Race: is biological is just a social construction None of the others is both biological and social.
Racism has both a cognitive and social dimension is a social phenomenon None of the others doesn't exist.
Saussure said that without difference meaning wouldn't exist we don't need difference to have meaning difference doesn't exist None of the others.
According to Bakhtin: is fixed depends on the topic None of the others meaning is always open to interpretation.
difference: is something not everyone perceives the same way None of the others is irrelevant can be considered the basis of 'culture'.
Freud thought: the self was a whole the 'other' was irrelevant people could develop their selves only throught the 'other' None of the others.
Gender is: a cultural construct the same as sex biologically based None of the others.
Women and men: have no difference in treatment are still treated in a different way none of the others have reached equality.
Insults: change in every language are strongly influenced by sexism None of the others are used in the same way for both men and women.
Insults to women: compare them to animals and refer to sexual behaviours refer to their skills in the kitchen refer only to their weaknesses none of the others.
Titles used for men: contain personal information and sentimental status give sexual information None of the others can be chosen by the man himself.
When we use the term 'spinster' we are: None of the others saying that women is attractive simply saying that the woman is not married implying that something is wrong with that woman.
Advertising: none of the others always objectifies, from different points of view, women gives women a powerful position never objectifies women.
The dominance theory refers: to the power hel by women inside the couples to men's dominance in every sector of the society to the powerful position held by women in society none of the others.
According to the social constructionists: dolescents are the only ones who need to construct their social position both men and women adjust their way of speaking according the situation and group they're into None of the others women need to create social relationships.
What are literacies? None of the others the ability to read and write a synonym for literature a type of language.
Literacy practices are: the general cultural ways of utilizing written languages a colloquial literature None of the others a practical literature.
In education, literacy is: central only to what it is taught central only to how it is taught None of the others central to both what is taught and the way it is taught.
People's 'meaning making', also called 'semiosis', is: bimodal multimodal monomodal None of the others.
The difference between 'computer literacy' and 'digital literacy' is that digital literacies: refer to the language used by computers refer to a digital code refer to reading and writing activities that use computer technology rather than pen and paper None of the others.
With the arrival of computer technologies: None of the others we have less forms of reading and writing we have more forms of writing than reading we have new forms of reading and writing.
Twitter: None of the others is a social network used only by politicians it can serve a variety of purposes: in education, for information gathering, etc… is a closed social network.
Grice's maxim of manner says: None of the others we have to be clear and brief, avoiding obscurity and ambiguity we have to be well-mannered during a conversation we have to cooperate during a conversation.
Tabloids: None of the others refer to the elite press can refer both to the popular and to the elite press refer to the 'popular' press.
Broadsheets: None of the others are big newspapers are associated with the 'popular' press tend to be associated with educated people.
The editorial None of the others expresses the editor's opinion on a specific topic is a newspaper dedicated to the editor is published once a month.
Literary translation: None of the others concerns only the poems is very difficult do define concerns all the novels.
Corpus studies: analyse only oral texts in order to elaborate a theory study only written texts in order to elaborate a theory None of the others want to trace patterns and common features across large amount of data.
Critical linguistics: None of the others is based on pragmatics and discourse analysis compares and contrasts two texts at a time criticizes old literary translations.
Theatrical translation: is easy to do None of the others has always been analysed until the 1980s was a neglected field.
Theatre dialogue: is an artificial language because it's different from a daily spoken language is identical to daily spoken language can be translated only by actors None of the others.
Who wrote “The Turn of the Screw”? Charles Dickens Henry James Joseph Conrad William Golding.
Who wrote “Heart of Darkness”? Joseph Conrad Charles Dickens Henry James William Golding.
Who wrote “Frankenstein”? George Orwell Herman Melville Jonathan Swift Mary Shelley.
Who wrote “Oliver Twist”? Charles Dickens Joseph Conrad William Golding Henry James.
Who wrote “Lord of the Flies”? Henry James Charles Dickens William Golding Joseph Conrad.
Who wrote “Nineteen Eighty-Four”? George Orwell Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift Herman Melville.
Who wrote “Moby Dick”? Jonathan Swift George Orwell Daniel Defoe Herman Melville.
The extract “Simon’s Death” comes from: Nineteen Eighty-Four The Great Gatsby The Snows of Kilimanjaro Lord of the Flies.
The extract “Thirteen o’Clock” comes from: The Snows of Kilimanjaro The Great Gatsby Lord of the Flies Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The extract “A Confrontation” comes from: The Great Gatsby Lord of the Flies The Turn of the Screw The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
The extract “The Monster comes to life” comes from: Lord of the Flies Nineteen Eighty-Four The Snows of Kilimanjaro Frankenstein.
The extract “Jakob’s Island” comes from: Frankenstein Oliver Twist The Great Gatsby Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The extract “Epilogue” comes from: Nineteen Eighty-Four Moby Dick Oliver Twist Frankenstein.
Who wrote “Robinson Crusoe”? Herman Melville Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift George Orwell.
Who wrote “Gulliver’s Travels”? Herman Melville George Orwell Jonathan Swift Daniel Defoe.
Who wrote “The Great Gatsby”? Francis Scott Fitzgerald George Orwell Jonathan Swift Herman Melville.
Who wrote “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”? George Orwell Francis Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Herman Melville.
The extract “At the party” comes from: Nineteen Eighty-Four Lord of the Flies The Snows of Kilimanjaro The Great Gatsby.
The extract “The Imminence of Death” comes from: The Snows of Kilimanjaro The Great Gatsby Lord of the Flies Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The extract “Crusoe’s safe landing on shore” comes from: Moby Dick Gulliver's Travels Frankenstein Robinson Crusoe.
The extract “On politics in Lilliput” comes from: Frankenstein Moby Dick Gulliver's Travels Robinson Crusoe.
Who wrote “Black Dogs”? Ian McEwan Charles Dickens Joseph Conrad William Golding.
Who wrote “The Cement Garden”? Henry James William Golding Charles Dickens Ian McEwan.
Who wrote “The Child in Time”? Joseph Conrad Charles Dickens Ian McEwan Henry James.
Who wrote “Amsterdam”? Jonathan Swift Herman Melville Ian McEwan George Orwell.
The extract “The Concentration Camp of Majdanek” comes from The Snows of Kilimanjaro Lord of the Flies Nineteen Eighty-Four Black Dogs.
"Burger’s Daughter" is a novel written by Oscar Wilde Nadine Gordimer James Joyce Virginia Woolf.
"Burger’s Daughter" is set in: India Australia South Africa USA.
The protagonist of "Burger’s Daughter" is: Emily Rosa Lisa Raisa.
What is the name of the artist who portraits Dorian Gray? Basil Copperfield Basil Browning Lord Henry Wotton Basil Hallward.
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a novel written by: Charles Dickens Emily Brontë Nadine Gordimer Oscar Wilde.
Lord Henry Wotton is a character of: The Picture of Dorian Gray The Great Gatsby Burger's Daughter Lord of the Flies.
Oscar Wilde is: An Anglo-American playwright None of the others An Anglo-Irish playwright An Australian playwright.
Joseph Conrad had: Indian origins Polish origins None of the others German origins.
To Conrad the sea: None of the others was a metaphor for 'infinite' represented the tragedy of loneliness represented his love for sea travels.
James' most famous novels: were mostly political were about the interplay between American emigrants, English people and Europeans None of the others talked about infidelity.
James was: German American None of the others Polish.
Mary Shelley was: a romantic novelist None of the others a romantic poet a modern novelist.
Mary Shelley's most famous novel was: Animal Farm Frenkenstein Moby Dick None of the others.
Golding believed that: evil was produced by men as bees produce honey evil was produced only by evil people None of the others evil wasn't common among men.
Gulliver's Travels contain: a brutal and horrific language None of the others a satire of the errors, frailties and follies that human beings are prone to only fantastic elements without a connection to the real world.
The Great Gatsby was written: in 1921 in 1940 in 1925 None of the others.
Fitzgerald became famous with: This Side of Paradise None of the others Tender is the Night The Great Gatsby.
The Sun Also rises was: None of the others an incomplete novel Hemingway's debut novel the last novel written by Hemingway.
In 1953: Hemingway received the Nobel None of the others Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize Hemingway died.
Hemingway saw the world: misterious and unknown None of the others beautiful and filled with nature as complex and filled with moral ambiguities.
The Aesthetic movement in England: advocated art for art's sake wanted to create only beautiful things arrived in the 20th century None of the others.
The Picture of Dorian Gray: was a success from the beginning wasn't well received due to its homoerotic tones None of the others was published in 1893.
Wilde has been one of the greatest playwrights: of the Romantic era of the Victorian era None of the others of Modernism.
Due to her social and political position, some of Gordimer's works: were used as a manifesto against the apartheid were banned won many awards None of the others.
Nadine Gordimer's works: were centered only on social themes None of the others treated environmental, social and political themes were only poems.
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