Vocabulary and Parallelism Quiz

What prosodic feature is manifested on the highness and lowness of the voice?

• pitch

• intonation

• juncture

• stress

What is the other term for juncture?

• pitch

• intonation

• juncture

• stress

"I did not win the lottery." If read in a normal and low pitches, what emotion would it most likely show?

• happy

• sad

• surprised

• nervous

"My heart is torn into two!" If read with normal and high pitches, what emotion would it convey?

• distress

• anger

• sarcasm

• happiness

"What?!" If one would exclaim it with extreme confusion, what would be the best description for its pitch?

• low and slow

• low but quick

• very high and loud

• loud but low

To protect her delicate hands, Fran will not rake the yard, do the dishes, or __________.

• refuses to scrub the bathtub

• won't scrub the bathtub

• scrub the bathtub

• none of the above

When Diane takes her beagle for a walk, Santana enjoys sniffing for edible garbage, __________, and lunging at squirrels.

• howls at bicyclist

• howling at bicyclist

• she howls at bicyclist

• none of the above

After Amanda cashes her paycheck, the money goes to her savings account, cappuccino fund, and __________.

• paying her credit card bill

• toward her credit card balance

• credit card balance

• none of the above

Carlos not only missed his one-year anniversary with Adrianna __________.

• but he also forgot his mother's birthday

• but also forgot his mother's birthday

• but also forgetting his mother's birthday

• none of the above

With the humans out of the house, Skeeter had to decide either to shred a roll of toilet paper or __________.

• chew another hole in the sofa arm

• chewing another hole in the sofa arm

• if he wanted to chew another hole in the sofa arm

• none of the above