Rhetoric and Prosody

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1.)"Rivers of blood flowed on the battlefield" Is an example of-

2 points

Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Alliteration

2.)"Camel is the ship of the desert" is an example of -

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Metaphor

Simile

Pun

Personification

3.) Opportunity knocks at the door but once'. This is an example of- *

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Hyperbole

Metaphor

Antithesis

Personification

4.) Patterns of Stressed sounds is called _____.
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Meter

Rhythm

Sound

Music

5.) What is Terminal Pitch Contour? *

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the most prominent part of a phrase

a pitch pattern that characterized by rises and falls

a pitch contour associated with the final portion of an intonation unit

the relative prominence of different syllables in a word

6.) A line of one foot is a monometer, 2 feet is a dimeter, and so on--trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter (7), and o ctameter (8). The number of syllables in a line varies therefore according to the meter. *

2 points

7.)Select the correct ones.
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IAMBIC (x /) : That time of year thou mayst in me behold

TROCHAIC (/ x): Tell me not in mournful numbers

SPONDAIC (/ /): Break, break, break/ On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!

ANAPESTIC (x x /): And the sound of a voice that is still

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8.) A category of poetry based on unrhymed lines and a definite meter, usually of iambic pentameter is called? *

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Blank Verse

Iambic Verse

Rhyme Royal

Meter

9.) Who is the father of blank verse? *

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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Shakespeare

John Milton

Wordsworth

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