1. Quiz on Intonation and Word Stress

Ques.1] "It was exceptionally difficult." is an example of:

• Normal tonic stress

• new information stress

• Emphatic stress

• contrastive stress

Ques.2] Punctuation marks are a more reliable and accurate way of clarifying meaning than spoken intonation patterns.

• True

• False

Ques.3] If I want to provide a simple positive response to a yes/no question, I'll usually use-

• a rising tone followed by a fall

• a falling tone

•  a sharply rising tone

• a flat tone

Ques.4] The four types of intonation are :

•  

  Slipping, dipping, blaring, and soothing

• 
  Shouting, whispering, speaking, and croaking

• Rising, falling, channelling, and sliding

• Rising, falling, dipping, and peaking

Ques.5] Intonation can be used to determine the attitude of a speaker

• True

• False

Q.6] Identify where the word stress is,

Photographer is one of the best professions to choose .

• PHO-to-graph

• pho-TO-graph

Q.7] We can stress only vowels, not consonants.

• True

• False

Q.8] Which syllable is stressed in "Volunteer"?

• LUN

• TEER