English Spoken Language Features

Questionnaire is set of questions which could be written or multiple choice question given to the individuals or groups to find the factual information.

| A Control ____ asks a series of questions and then uses your answers to create a control on a form or report. b.

The first eight questions pertain to each participant’s personal information (e.g. age, gender, race, etc.) as well as their lifestyles (e.g. activity level, employment, etc.). The next question determines whether or not the participant will answer the next four questions or skip down to question thirteen and fourteen. This style of questionnaire is referred to as branching questionnaire and allows for the questionnaire respondent to move through the questions a different way depending on their answer

For multiple choice, true/false questions and short answer, you may be asked about the following concepts or issues:

Structured Questions: (p167) provide a subject with responses to the question for them to choose from.

Directions: Identify the type of sentence – simple (I), compound (I, fanboy I or I;I), or complex (D,I ID or I wedge D).

Assonance - Very similar to alliteration, but with vowels or a group of letters involving one

Right There (Literal) Question: This is a factual question that you can answer by pointing “right there” on the page to find the answer. An example from The Odyssey would be, “What test did Odysseus pass that the suitors could not?” (Answer: Stringing his bow and shooting the arrow through a row of ax handles.)

Taking turns allows a smooth transition between transactions and one must demonstrate that they heard and understand what someone said by giving some form of verbal or nonverbal response.

‘Speech’ is the formation of letters to produce sounds in order to convey feelings, thoughts or ideas. An example could be combining the sounds ‘eye-aa-mm-j-ay-nn’, to form the introductory sentences of ‘I am Jane’. This also includes altering the shape of the mouth

A figure of speech making a statement less or more important than it really is.

semicolon. A semicolon “ tells you that there is … some questions about… preceding full

filler is a sound or word or a phrase that is spoken in conversation by one

and/or phrases such as “I don’t understand” which indicate to the learner that there is a problem with his or her utterance, and that it needs to be reformulated. For example:

At least one or two of the following devices of sound: assonance, consonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and other echoic words.