Quiz

Read each question carefully and then select the best answer.

1		This sentence: "Her new electric lawnmower is a wonderful time-saving device." uses ________________________ to make metaphoric meaning.
			A)	archetypal metaphor
			B)	paraphier featured
			C)	negated metaphier
			D)	dead metaphor
			E)	systemic metaphor
2		The genuine power of metaphors was first recognized in __________________.
			A)	modern times
			B)	1712
			C)	ancient times
			D)	2003
			E)	1217
3		Many rhetorical critics (and other cultural analysts) argue that much of human life, culture, and experiences are influenced significantly by the use of specific metaphors and other ______________________.
			A)	non-literal comparisons
			B)	philosophy tropes
			C)	linguistic deprivation
			D)	civilization markers
			E)	non-focal figures
4		Ronald Carpenter has investigated the cultural impact of metaphors used ____________________________.
			A)	over long spans of time
			B)	in Chicago in the 1940s
			C)	in situations of economic panic
			D)	over several different languages
			E)	by banking professionals
5		Michael Osborn argues that archetypal metaphors are used _____________________ regular novel metaphors.
			A)	less often than
			B)	about the same as
			C)	more often than
			D)	before and after
			E)	instead of standard
6		According to Osborn archetypal metaphors stay the same across time, ____________ and _________________.
			A)	places/politics
			B)	conditions/cultures
			C)	genders/regions
			D)	tools/trajectory
			E)	chronology/eschatology
7		In a novel metaphor two conceptually dissimilar items nonetheless have a _________________________.
			A)	busted connection
			B)	joint arrest
			C)	redundant configuration
			D)	formulated disguise
			E)	specific similarity
8		The function of a novel metaphor finds our minds ___________________ new insight, perspective, and awareness.
			A)	guided to
			B)	prohibited from
			C)	maneuvered around
			D)	guided below
			E)	maneuvered outside
9		Systemic metaphors are __________________.
			A)	used only in Western cultures
			B)	disconnected
			C)	formulas for distress
			D)	preferred by the rich
			E)	constantly used
10		Systemic metaphors are ___________ obvious as metaphors.
			A)	always
			B)	typically
			C)	rarely
			D)	painfully
			E)	a & d
11		Seeing romantic relationships as a trip or journey finds us using _______________ metaphors.
			A)	novel
			B)	systemic
			C)	orientational
			D)	archetypal
			E)	dead
12		Orientational metaphors operate differently than ____________.
			A)	novel
			B)	buried
			C)	parsed
			D)	metaphrands
			E)	A & C
13		A dead metaphor is in use when we cannot easily raise audience awareness that a ___________ is in use.
			A)	metaphrand
			B)	paraphrand
			C)	metaphor
			D)	dataphor
			E)	scruple
14		Hardy-Short and Short discovered that ______________ other studies had attempted to refine and expand understanding of archetypal metaphors.
			A)	many
			B)	few
			C)	ten
			D)	five
			E)	seventeen
15		Hardy-Short and Short found that death and rebirth are two ______________ _________________ archetypal metaphors.
			A)	essentially "pure"
			B)	absently "formed"
			C)	inconsistently "used"
			D)	carefully "employed"
			E)	responsively "carried"
16		The following sentence uses paraphier featured as part of its creation of metaphoric meaning: "Pat is an ox."
			A)	True
			B)	False
17		In the following sentence the word "flew" is the metaphrand: "She flew above her concerns."
			A)	True
			B)	False
18		One paraphier for the word "pit" in the following sentence would be "deep": "After losing his job him fell into a pit of despair."
			A)	True
			B)	False
19		One paraphrand for the word "clowns" in the following sentence would be "wild clothes": "Dolphins are real clowns"
			A)	True
			B)	False
20		The following sentence uses an orientational metaphor: "She was awarded four raises last year."
			A)	True
			B)	False
21		The following sentence uses a systemic metaphor: "I'm living on borrowed time."
			A)	True
			B)	False
22		The following sentence uses a negated metaphier to create metaphoric meaning: "He's no Kobe Bryant."
			A)	True
			B)	False
23		The following sentence uses a novel metaphor: "Her hands felt like ice cubes after three hours on the trail."
			A)	True
			B)	False
24		The metaphier in the following sentence would be "[water from] a fire hose": "His ideas come out with the force of a fire hose."
			A)	True
			B)	False
25		The following sentence uses an archetypal metaphor: "The new tax cuts with cause more bleeding in the education system."
			A)	True
			B)	False