Prosody: Sound, Rhythm, and Rhyme in Poetry True-False Write T If The

Prosody: Sound, Rhythm, and Rhyme in Poetry True-False Write T If The

Prosody: Sound, Rhythm, and Rhyme in Poetry True-False Write T if the statement is true or F if it is false. __t___ 1. The study of prosody aims to determine how poets control their words so that the sound of a poem complements its expression of emotions and ideas. __ t__ 2. Vowel sounds create the flow of poetic speech. __f___ 3. Very few English vowel sounds are pronounced as a schwa. __f___ 4. There are thirty English diphthongs. _t____ 5. In combination, vowels and consonants produce understandable speech. __f___ 6. Stop sounds are smooth and flowing. __t___ 7. Consonants may be either voiced or voiceless. __t___ 8. Nasal consonants result from the release of sound through the nose. __f___ 9. All English sounds are spelled as they are pronounced. __f__ 10. In ordinary speech, rhythm is as important as the flow of ideas. __f__ 11. Light stresses determine the accent or beat of a poetic line. _f___ 12. Pentameter has four feet in a line, and tetrameter has five feet. _f___ 13. The most important and most common poetic foot in English is the anapest. _t___ 14. The iamb most nearly duplicates the cadence of natural speech. _f___ 15. Poets generally prefer the trochaic foot. _f___ 16. The pyrrhic foot consists of a single stressed or unstressed syllable by itself. _t___ 17. Too much formal regularity in a poem can result in monotony. _t___ 18. Too much alliteration can cause comic and catastrophic consequences. _t___ 19. Onomatopoeic words are verbal echoes of the actions they describe. _f___ 20. Euphony creates a "bad sound" while cacophony creates a "good sound." _t___ 21. Rhyme promotes memory, gives delight, and inspires poetic creativity. _f___ 22. Internal rhyme occurs at the ends of lines. _f___ 23. In slant or inexact rhyme, the rhyming sounds are identical in spelling but different in pronunciation. _f___ 24. A quatrain is a three-line poetic unit. _t___ 25. Your first reading in preparation for an essay on prosody should be for comprehension..

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