Prosody Trivia Questions
- ❓ 125+ questions
- 🗂️ Language
- 🎚️ Easy to expert
- ✨ Free to play
Study of rhythm and intonation. Play Prosody trivia solo to sharpen your knowledge, or challenge a friend head-to-head in Trivia Tango — every question comes with an explanation so you learn as you play. Questions span every level, from easy warm-ups to expert-level stumpers, so there's a real challenge here however much you already know.
Already playing?
Sample Prosody Quiz Questions
A mix of easy, medium and hard — questions run from warm-up to expert, so there's a real challenge at every level. Think you know the answers? Play to find out.
This term describes the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry, giving verse its musical quality.
Difficulty: Easy- Rhyme
- Alliteration
- Meter
- Stanza
When a metrical line is missing its final syllable, leaving an incomplete foot at the end, it is described as this.
Difficulty: Medium- Hypercatalectic
- Catalectic
- Acatalectic
- Brachycatalectic
The short concluding line (a dactyl plus spondee or trochee) that ends a Sapphic stanza is called this.
Difficulty: Hard- Adonic
- Glyconic
- Pherecratean
- Reizianum
The rise and fall of pitch in speech, which can turn a statement into a question, is called this.
Difficulty: Easy- Accent
- Intonation
- Articulation
- Enunciation
When a line has an extra syllable beyond the regular metrical pattern, it is called this.
Difficulty: Medium- Hypercatalectic
- Catalectic
- Acatalectic
- Anacrustic
The Greek lyric line of eight syllables used by Alcman and others, consisting of a spondee/trochee, choriamb, and iamb, is called this.
Difficulty: Hard- Sapphic
- Adonic
- Glyconic
- Alcaic
A single unit of pronunciation containing one vowel sound is known as this.
Difficulty: Easy- Phoneme
- Morpheme
- Consonant
- Syllable
This three-syllable foot has stress on the middle syllable, flanked by two unstressed syllables, as in "remember."
Difficulty: Medium- Dactyl
- Anapest
- Amphibrach
- Cretic
Think You Know Prosody?
Play a free round in your browser, learn something new with every answer, and challenge your friends to beat your score.
Or get the app