Тема 5. Інтонація

How do we call the most important part of the intonation group?

*Nucleus

Stress

Phrase

Word

What does the falling tone convey?

*Completion and finality

Incompleteness

uncertainty

weakness

The nucleus is usually …

*On the last notional word

On the first notional word

At the end of the sentence

In the middle of the last notional word

Name the kinds of scales.

Descending stepping, sliding, scandent.

Ascending stepping, sliding, scandent.

Level

*All answers are right

In intonation of English utterances are marked by … and partly by … with which the stressed and unstressed syllables are pronounced

without intensity, weaker energy

zero intensity, without energy

less intensity, weaker energy

*greater intensity, stronger energy

The intensity of unstressed syllables is … in Ukrainian and … in English.

*stronger, weaker

weaker, stronger

as strong … as

as weak … as

What does the intonation groups consist of?

a single notion word

they may coincide with phrase/word-combination

a clause or a sentence

*all answers are correct

How the intonation of English sentences is marked?

by longer duration of their syllables

the pitch change represent respectively the falling tones

*by greater intensivity and partly by stronger energy with which the stressed and unstressed syllables are pronounced.

the pitch change represent respectively the rising tones

What is the regular alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables?

Tempo

*Rhythm

Timbre

Speech melody

How many beats are there in the sentence? “I need some money to pay for the trip”

There are nine beats in this sentence.

*There are four beats in this sentence.

There are three beats in this sentence.

There are five beats in this sentence.

How many beats are there in the sentence? “I must go to class at two”

*There are three beats in this sentence.

There are seven beats in this sentence.

There are four beats in this sentence.

There are five beats in this sentence.

How many beats are there in the sentence? “I’ll meet you at the airport in London on Friday”

There are ten beats in this sentence.

There are eight beats in this sentence.

*There are four beats in this sentence.

There are five beats in this sentence.

How many beats are there in the sentence? “She’s coming to visit the classes on Thursday”

There are nine beats in this sentence.

*There are four beats in this sentence.

There are eight beats in this sentence.

There are five beats in this sentence.

How many beats are there in the sentence? We’ll have delivered the books by Monday.

*There are three beats in this sentence.

There are four beats in this sentence.

There are two beats in this sentence.

There are five beats in this sentence.

How many beats are there in the sentence? “The baby has a big splinter in the skin of his finger”.

There are seven beats in this sentence.

There are five beats in this sentence.

There are three beats in this sentence.

*There are four beats in this sentence.

How many beats are there in the sentence? “Can you believe I actually said I really think I bought another half a chicken salad sandwich this afternoon?”

*There are five beats in this sentence.

There are twelve beats in this sentence.

There are eight beats in this sentence.

There are six beats in this sentence.

How many beats are there in the sentence? “I want a big, impressive, annual cost of living raise”.

There are five beats in this sentence.

*There are four beats in this sentence.

There are seven beats in this sentence.

There are six beats in this sentence.

How many beats are there in the sentence? “The dogs’ll have eaten the bones by the time we get there”.

There are eight beats in this sentence.

There are six beats in this sentence.

*There are four beats in this sentence.

There are seven beats in this sentence.

The communicative function of intonation is realized in various ways. What does the intonation serve?

Information content,

Text

Speech (statement, question, command)

*All answers are correct

The intonation that the listener needs in order to interpret the sentence may therefore be retrievable. From where?

From verbal context

From situational context

*From verbal and situational context

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What functions has the intonation?

Connection or integrating, constitutive

Grammatical, distinctive

Function of communication

*All answers are correct

Find the explanation to the grammatical function of intonation.

is realized in the opposition of the same word sequences which differ in certain parameters of the intonation pattern

*that of trying the major parts together within the phrase and trying phrases together within the text

consider how one idea leads on from another

serves the purpose of communication

Find the explanation to the connection function of intonation.

*consider how one idea leads on from another

is realized in the opposition of the same word sequences which differ in certain parameters of the intonation pattern

serves the purpose of communication

that of trying the major parts together within the phrase and trying phrases together within the text

Find the explanation to the distinctive function of intonation

that of trying the major parts together within the phrase and trying phrases together within the text

consider how one idea leads on from another

*is realized in the opposition of the same word sequences which differ in certain parameters of the intonation pattern

serves the purpose of communication

Find the explanation to the communication function of intonation

is realized in the opposition of the same word sequences which differ in certain parameters of the intonation pattern

that of trying the major parts together within the phrase and trying phrases together within the text

consider how one idea leads on from another

*serves the purpose of communication

What is rhythm?

*a kind of framework of speech organization

a kind of framework of language organization

analysis of the spoken variety

*All answers are correct

Structural or syntactic stylistic devices indicate the way the whole creative work has been built, thus helping the rhythm to fulfill its constitutive function. What syntactical stylistic devices can be found in poem?

repetition inversion,

polysyndeton

syntactical parallelism

*All answers are correct

Semantic stylistic devices impart high artistic and aesthetic value to any work. What semantic stylistic devices can be found in poem?

simile

metaphor

intensification and personification

*All answers are correct