Important Literary Terms

Q.What is a phoneme
Ans. The smallest unit at the level of sound is called a phoneme. Phonemes
are signficant sounds in specified langauge.
Q.. What are active and passive articulators?
Ans. The active articulators are the lower lip and the tongue. These are
the articulators that make contacts with the passive articulators. The passive
articulators are the upper lip, the upper teeth, the roof of the mouth, and the
back wall of the throat or pharynd. The passive articulators are called passive
because they don’t move to touch other articulators.
Q.. What is a diphothong?
Ans. A diphtong is the union of two vowel sounds or vowel letters e.g. the
sounds (ai) in pipe the letters (ou) in doubt.
Q.  What is a morpheme?
Ans. A Morpheme is minimal syntactical unit of which forms words, or
grammatical structure.
Q. . What is a stress?
Ans. A stress is the intensity or prominence given to a syllable. It may be
described as ‘emphasis on a syllable on word in the form of prominent, relative
loudness’.
Q.. What is a Pitch?
Ans. A Pitch is the auditory property of a sound that enables a listener to
place it on a scale going from low to high, without considering the acoustic
properties, such as the frequency of the sound.
Q.. What is an allomorph?
Ans. Allomorph is ‘morpheme variant. For example /S/Z/IZ/ etc. are the
allomorphs of the plural morpheme /z/ in English.
Q.  What is morphonemics?
Ans. Morphoemics is the code which ties together the grammatical and
the phonological systems. It is the study of the phonological environment of
the morphemes of a language.
Q.. What are free and bound morphemes?
Ans.Morphemes which can occur alone are free morphemes e.g. the black,
yet, go. Morphemes which do not occur alone are called bound e.g. ness, less,
ed, un. Free morphemes are generaly the root words and bound morphemes
are the affixes.
Q.. What is intonation?
Ans. Intonation refers to significant changes of pitch and stress pertaining
to sentences. Falling and rising are the two basic intonation types.
Q. What is a rhyme?
Ans. Rhyme is harmoncial succession of sounds consisting of or
contributing to the musical flow of language. If the measured movement is
based on syllabic quantity, it is syllable timed.