This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Prosody – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Prosody Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What pattern of meter is "1 unstressed syllable followed by 1 stressed syllable" ? A) Iambic. B) Trochaic. C) Anapestic. D) Dactylic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic. 2. Intensity and Fo rise and fall together A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Some phonemes are innately louder due to close position A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. What is the fundamental frequency? A) The fundamental frequency can be seen as dark bands in the spectrogram. B) It is the equivalent to the resonant frequency. C) The frequency at which the complex wave repeats itself. D) The fundamental frequency determines which vowel we hear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The frequency at which the complex wave repeats itself. 5. What is prosody in English language? A) Patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry or language. B) The study of prehistoric animals in the English language. C) A type of punctuation used in English language. D) A type of flower in the English language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry or language. 6. What are the different linguistic levels? A) Lexical Prosody, Post-Lexical Prosody, Paralinguistic Prosody. B) Speech Recognition, Mental Lexicon. C) Bilingualism. D) Code-Switching. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lexical Prosody, Post-Lexical Prosody, Paralinguistic Prosody. 7. On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool, In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool, He was splashing ..... enjoying the jungle's great joys ..... When Horton the elephant heard a small noise.What type of meter from the passage above? A) Iambic. B) Anapestic. C) Trochaic. D) Dactylic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anapestic. 8. English is stress-timed A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. Isochronic (evenly-timed) A) Stress-timed. B) Syllable-timed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syllable-timed. 10. What is the lexical use of F0? A) F0 is used to distinguish words in tone languages as well as accentual languages. B) F0 is used to distinguish words in intonation languages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F0 is used to distinguish words in tone languages as well as accentual languages. 11. Provide an example of a sentence with proper prosody. A) She walked gracefully through the garden, admiring the colorful flowers. B) He ran quickly to catch the bus, panting heavily. C) They laughed loudly at the funny joke, attracting attention. D) The cat meowed loudly in the middle of the night, disturbing the peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She walked gracefully through the garden, admiring the colorful flowers. 12. What is the amplitude? A) Cycles per seconds measured in Hz. B) We perceive the amplitude as pitch. C) It defines the rhythm of speech. D) Pressure in variations measured in dB. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pressure in variations measured in dB. 13. Emphasis placed on a segment or a group of segments to convey meaning, uses Fo contour, intensity contour, and duration A) Stress. B) Intonation. C) Sonority. D) Duration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stress. 14. What is a syllable-timed language? A) The duration of every syllable is equal e.g. English. B) The duration of every syllable is not equal e.g. German or English. C) The duration of every syllable is equal e.g. French or Spanish. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The duration of every syllable is equal e.g. French or Spanish. 15. What pattern of meter is "1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable" ? A) Iambic. B) Trochaic. C) Anapestic. D) Dactylic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trochaic. 16. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:What type of meter from Shakespeare's sonnet above? A) Iambic. B) Spondaic. C) Anapestic. D) Trochaic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic. 17. What is the correct usage of the word 'their' in a sentence? A) Their car is parked outside. B) Thier car is parked outside. C) There car is parked outside. D) They're car is parked outside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Their car is parked outside. 18. This word gets a bonus letter. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. Vocabulary 9. When a young person does something well, youshould ..... them for it. A) Grumble. B) Gossip. C) Praise. D) Criticise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Praise. 20. What is prosody? A) Prosody studies only the tone and rhythm of speech. B) Prosody studies speech recognition with white background noise. C) Prosody studies the tune and rhythm of speech and how we actually speak. D) Prosody studies the tune and rhythm speech and how these features contribute to meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prosody studies the tune and rhythm speech and how these features contribute to meaning. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesProsody Quiz 1Prosody Quiz 3American Poetry QuizMetaphysical Poetry QuizPoetry Terms QuizPoetry QuizRomantic Poetry QuizShakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books