Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics Quizzes & उत्तर- कौरसेरा

Immerse yourself in the art of lyrical expression with interesting quizzes on songwriting and expert answers from Writing the Lyrics. Discover how to transform emotions and stories into captivating verses that engage audiences. These quizzes serve as a gateway to understanding the nuances of lyric writing, from rhyming systems to storytelling techniques.

Whether you are a novice songwriter looking to hone your lyrical skills or a music enthusiast curious about the creative process behind songwriting, this collection offers valuable insight into the world of crafting meaningful lyrics. Join us on a poetic journey of exploration as we delve into the art of lyric writing and unlock the power of words to evoke emotion and connect with listeners.

प्रश्न पूछना 1: Point of View and The Development Engine

Q1. Point of view does which of the following? लागू होने वाले सभी को जाँचे.

• Answers the question, “To whom?"
• Answers the question, “Who is talking?"
• Controls the level of intimacy in the song.
• Establishes the relationship between the singer and the audience.

Q2. Listen to the song, “In Front of the Alamo” (Gary Burr). Which point of view does it use?

• Second person narrative
• Third person narrative
• Direct address
• First person narrative

Q3. Listen to the song, “What’ll I do?" (Irving Berlin). Which point of view does it use?

• Third person narrative
• First person narrative
• Direct Address
• Second person narrative

Q4. Listen to the song, “Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig’s Tune)" (Joni Mitchell). Which point of view does it use?

• First person narrative
• Direct address
• Second person narrative
• Third person narrative

Q5. Listen to “Eleanor Rigby” (Lennon, McCartney). What is the primary development engine used in this song? (लागू होने वाले सभी को जाँचे)

• Point of view
• Past/Present/Future

Q6. Listen to “One More Dollar” (Gillian Welch). What development engine is used? (लागू होने वाले सभी को जाँचे)

• Point of view
• Past/present/future

क्यू 7. Listen to “Still Crazy After All These Years” (Paul Simon). What development engine is used?

• Point of view
• Past/present/future

क्यू 8. Listen to the song, “I Can’t Make You Love Me” (Mike Reid/Allen Shamblin). How many of your six best friends show up in the song? (Check all that apply.)

• कब
• कैसे
• कौन
• कहाँ
• क्या
• आप अभी भी आधे घर में नहीं हैं

प्रश्न 9. Listen to “The Great Pretender” (Buck Ram). What is the song form?

• Verse Verse Bridge Verse
• Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Chorus
• Verse Chorus Verse Chorus

प्र10. Listen to “Still Crazy After All These Years” (Paul Simon). What is the song form?

• Verse Verse Bridge Verse
• Verse Chorus Verse Chorus
• Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Chorus

प्रश्न 11. Listen to “I Can’t Make You Love Me” (Mike Reid/Allen Shamblin). What is the song form?

• Verse Verse Bridge Verse
• Verse Chorus Verse Chorus
• Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Chorus

प्र12. Listen to “In Front of the Alamo” (Gary Burr). What is the song form?

• Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Chorus
• Verse Chorus Verse Chorus
• Verse Verse Bridge Verse

प्रश्न 13. Listen to “Strawberry Wine” (Matraca Berg/Gary Harrison). What is the song form?

• Verse Verse Bridge Verse
• Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Chorus
• Verse Chorus Verse Chorus

प्र14. Listen to “Why Can’t I Have You?" (Ric Ocasek). What is the song form?

• Verse Chorus Verse Chorus
• Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Chorus
• Verse Pre-chorus Chorus Verse Pre-chorus Chorus

प्रश्न पूछना 2: प्रतिबिंब: Developing an Idea from the Title

Q1. Does your title relate to the ideas in each box and gain more meaning each time? यदि ऐसा है तो, कैसे? अगर नहीं, how can you edit your ideas to make the title gain weight?

आप क्या सोचते हैं?

Q2. Does the most important idea (the why of the song) appear in the last box?

• हां
• नहीं

Q3. Does each box contribute to the further development of the title in a clear way? Is it obvious why the song is titled the way it is?

आप क्या सोचते हैं?

Q4. Is the development of the idea interesting and unique?

आप क्या सोचते हैं?

Q5. Is the point of view chosen the most effective for the development of the title?

आप क्या सोचते हैं?

Q6. Is who is talking clearly identified?

• हां
• नहीं

क्यू 7. Is to whom the narrator is speaking clearly identified?

• हां
• नहीं

क्यू 8. Is why clearly identified?

• हां
• नहीं

प्रश्न 9. Do when and where set an interesting and effective context for the title?

आप क्या सोचते हैं?

सप्ताह 3: Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics Coursera Quiz Answers

प्रश्न पूछना 1: Stopping and Going

Q1. Which of the following statements is true?

• आम तौर पर, an even number of lines creates stability and an odd number of lines creates instability.
• आम तौर पर, an odd number of lines creates stability and an even number of lines creates instability.

Q2. True or False: The number of lines in a section will create its own feeling, irrespective of what the words say.

• सत्य
• असत्य

Q3. In “Some People’s Lives,” is verse 1 stable or unstable?

Some people’s lives

run down like clocks.

One day they stop,

and that’s all they’ve got.

• Stable
• Unstable

Q4. In “Some People’s Lives,” is chorus 1 stable or unstable?

Didn’t anybody tell them?

Didn’t anybody see?

Didn’t anybody love them

like you love me?

• Stable
• Unstable

Q5. Is the following section stable or unstable? If unstable, does it move forward or create spotlights?

Abiding love and friendship

Sweeter than a song

Helps you get along

• The section is unstable—it creates spotlights.
• The section is unstable—it moves forward.
• The section is stable.

Q6. Is the following section stable or unstable? If unstable, does it move forward or create spotlights?

Abiding love and friendship

Never does you wrong

Helps you get along

Sweeter than a song

• The section is stable.
• The section is unstable—it creates spotlights.
• The section is unstable—it moves forward.

क्यू 7. Is the following section stable or unstable? If unstable, does it move forward or create spotlights?

Abiding love and friendship

Faithful, pure and strong

Helps you get along

Never does you wrong

Sweeter than a song

• The section is unstable—it moves forward.
• The section is unstable—it creates spotlights.
• The section is stable.

क्यू 8. Only in terms of the number of lines, which of these two examples creates a contrast between sections?

Example A

One in your belly button,

Two through your nose

Three through your eyebrows

Four that don’t show

Some beneath your tan line

To give your boyfriend fits

Of course you’ve got the tongue stud

You’re pretty proud of it

Aren’t you afraid of magnets?

Industrial strength magnets?

Do you dream of them at night

Waiting there outside

Humming through the walls

Coming down the halls?

मैग्नेट

Aren’t you afraid of magnets?

Example B

One in your belly button,

Two through your nose

Three through your eyebrows

Four that don’t show

Of course you’ve got the tongue stud

To give your boyfriend fits

You’re pretty proud of it

Aren’t you afraid of magnets?

Industrial strength magnets?

Do you dream of them at night

Waiting there outside

Humming through the walls

Coming down the halls?

मैग्नेट

Aren’t you afraid of magnets?

• Example A
• Example B

प्रश्न 9. Indicate whether the line lengths are stable or unstable. If unstable, do they move forward or create spotlights?

Maybe we should slow it down

Give these hearts a little time

• Stable
• Unstable—create spotlights
• Unstable—move forward

प्र10. Indicate whether the line lengths are stable or unstable. If unstable, do they move forward or create spotlights?

One in your belly button,

Two through your nose

• Unstable—move forward
• Stable
• Unstable—create spotlights

प्रश्न 11. Does the last line create stability or instability?

Abiding love and friendship

Sweeter than a song

Helps you get along

Get along

• Stability
• Instability

प्र12. Does the last line create stability or instability?

Abiding love and friendship

Sweeter than a song

Never does you wrong

Helps you get along

• Stability
• Instability

प्रश्न 13. Does the last line create stability or instability?

Abiding love and friendship

Sweeter than a song

Never does you wrong

Stays strong

• Stability
• Instability

प्र14. Which of these last lines creates additional spotlights? What idea is in the spotlights?

उदाहरण 1

Your hand is slightly open

Lifted toward the sky

And I can’t help the feeling

You’re waving a goodbye

उदाहरण 2

Your hand is slightly open

Lifted toward the sky

And I can’t help the feeling

That somehow you are waving a goodbye

• उदाहरण 2, spotlight is on “feeling”
• उदाहरण 1, spotlight is on “feeling”
• उदाहरण 2, spotlight is on “goodbye”
• उदाहरण 1, spotlight is on “goodbye”

प्रश्न 15. Considering only line lengths, which of these sections creates movement into another section? Please select all that apply.

• Aren’t you afraid of magnets? Do you dream of them at night Waiting there outside your door Lurking?
• Aren’t you afraid of magnets? Do you dream of them at night Waiting outside your door Humming through the walls?
• You warm her bottle I’ll change her diapers She’ll be hungry about two or three

सप्ताह 4: Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics Coursera Quiz Answers

प्रश्न पूछना 1: Sonic GPS—Mapping Your Song with Rhyme

Q1. Which re-write of “Amazing Grace” uses an xxaa rhyme scheme?

• Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound
• That saved a wretch like me
• I was lost as I could be
• Was blind, but now I see
• Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound
• I once was lost as I could be
• I was blind, but now I see
• My life has gone from lost to found
• Amazing Grace! how sweet the sound
• I once was lost, but now I’m not
• I was blind, but now I see
• Your love has saved a wretch like me

Q2. Identify the rhyme scheme whereby a represents rhymed syllables and x represents unrhymed syllables. Is the rhyme scheme stable or unstable?

Feel

Tramp

• a/a, स्थिर
• x/x, unstable

Q3. Identify the rhyme scheme whereby a represents rhymed syllables and x represents unrhymed syllables. Is this stable or unstable?

Steal

Squeal

Deal

• x/a/a, unstable
• a/a/x, unstable
• a/a/a, unstable
• a/x/a, unstable

Q4. Identify the rhyme scheme whereby a and b represent rhymed syllables and x represents unrhymed syllables. Is the rhyme scheme stable or unstable?

Damp

Feel

Squeal

Tramp

• a/x/a/x, unstable
• a/b/a/b, स्थिर
• a/a/b/b, स्थिर
• a/b/b/a, unstable

Q5. Identify the rhyme scheme whereby a and b represent rhymed syllables and x represents unrhymed syllables. Is the rhyme scheme stable or unstable?

Damp

Tramp

Ramp

Steal

• x/a/a/a, unstable
• x/a/x/a, स्थिर
• a/a/a/x, unstable
• a/x/a/x, unstable

Q6. Identify the following rhyme types as perfect or family rhyme.

• Filling
• Spilling
• Perfect
• टिक्स और माइट्स मुख्य रूप से जीवित जानवरों या पौधों से या कार्बनिक पदार्थों को विघटित करने से प्राप्त तरल पदार्थों पर फ़ीड करते हैं

क्यू 7. Identify the following rhyme types as perfect or family rhyme.

• नारियल
• Thunderstruck
• Perfect
• टिक्स और माइट्स मुख्य रूप से जीवित जानवरों या पौधों से या कार्बनिक पदार्थों को विघटित करने से प्राप्त तरल पदार्थों पर फ़ीड करते हैं

क्यू 8. Which of the following words are a perfect rhyme with the word CRAFT? (Select all that apply)

• Smack
• Raft
• Track
• Laughed

प्रश्न 9. Which of the following words are a family rhyme with the word STONE? (Select all that apply)

• Known
• घर
• Roam
• Clone

प्र10. Which of the following rhymes are additive? (Select all that apply)

• Lonely; Phony
• Release; Fleeced
• Fell; कुंआ
• Plea; Seize

प्रश्न 11. Which of the following rhymes are subtractive? (Select all that apply)

• सीखना; Stir
• Quench; Stench
• कुंआ; Fell
• Lonely; Phony

प्र12. Which of the following are assonance rhymes? (Select all that apply)

• Unfailing; Remaining
• Bleed; Lean
• Feud; Shoot
• Crave; Safe
• Penny; Steady

प्रश्न 13. Which of the following are consonance rhymes? (Select all that apply)

• Stellar; Taller
• Thread; Road
• Stately; Comfort
• Ammunition; पहनावा
• Fire; Tower

प्र14. Identify the rhyme type: उत्तम, परिवार, additive, subtractive, assonance, or consonance. Does the rhyme type create a feeling of stability or instability?

Flushed

Stuffed

• टिक्स और माइट्स मुख्य रूप से जीवित जानवरों या पौधों से या कार्बनिक पदार्थों को विघटित करने से प्राप्त तरल पदार्थों पर फ़ीड करते हैं, स्थिरता
• Perfect, instability
• Consonance, instability
• Assonance, instability

प्रश्न 15. Identify the rhyme types: उत्तम, परिवार, additive, subtractive, assonance, or consonance. Do the rhyme types, in the order they appear, create stability or instability?

Class

Roll

Tracks

Throat

• Class/tracks is additive
• Roll/throat is assonance
• Rhyme types create instability
• Class/tracks is subtractive
• Roll/throat is perfect
• Rhyme types create instability
• Class/tracks is perfect
• Roll/throat is perfect
• Rhyme types create stability

सप्ताह 5: Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics Coursera Quiz Answers

प्रश्न पूछना 1: Making It Move

Q1. What is the stressed syllable in the word tempting?

• tempt
• ing

Q2. What is the stressed syllable in the word suspect (परिस्थितियों के आधार पर हत्या को नैतिक रूप से उचित ठहराया जा सकता है)?

• sus
• pect

Q3. What are the stressed syllables in the word appreciation? Please check all that apply.

• ap
• pre
• ci
• ए
• tion

Q4. What are the primary and secondary stresses in the word illuminate?

• lu is primary and nate is secondary
• nate is primary and lu is secondary

Q5. What are the primary and secondary stresses in the word appreciation?

• pre is primary and a is secondary
• a is primary and pre is secondary

Q6. What are the primary and secondary stresses in the word paparazzi?

• raz is primary and pa is secondary
• pa is primary and raz is secondary

क्यू 7. What are the primary and secondary stresses in the word egomaniac?

• e and ac are primary and ma is secondary
• ma is primary and e and ac are secondary
• क्यू 8. What are the primary and secondary stresses in the word moonlight?
• light is primary and moon is secondary
• moon is primary and light is secondary

प्रश्न 9. What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables for the following lyric?

/ denotes a stressed syllable

• denotes an unstressed syllable

“Four friends laughing and dancing in the park”

• - / – – / – – / /
• / - / – – – – – – /
• / / / – – / – – – /
• / / – – – / – – – /

प्र10. What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables for the following lyric?

/ denotes a stressed syllable

• denotes an unstressed syllable

“The ones you couldn’t move”

• / – – / -
• - / – – /
• / - / - /
• / - / - / -

प्रश्न 11. What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables for the following lyric?

/ denotes a stressed syllable

• denotes an unstressed syllable

“You make your way between the cracks”

• / – – – / / /
• / - / - / - / -
• / - / - / - /
• / – – – / – – /

प्र12. What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables for the following lyric?

/ denotes a stressed syllable

• denotes an unstressed syllable

“I understand”

• / - /
• / – – /
• // - /

प्रश्न 13. What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables for the following lyric?

/ denotes a stressed syllable

• denotes an unstressed syllable

“One for your belly button

Two through your nose”

/ / - / - / -

• / - / /
• / - / – – / -
• / – – –
• / – – – – / -
• – – /
• / – – / - / -
• / – – /

प्र14. What are the stressed beats in this example? Please check all that apply.

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• उपाय 1: note 1
• उपाय 2: note 2
• उपाय 2: note 1
• उपाय 3: note 1

प्रश्न 15. What are the stressed beats in this example? Please check all that apply.

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• उपाय 1: note 1
• उपाय 3: note 1
• उपाय 2: note 2
• उपाय 2: note 4
• उपाय 1: note 2
• उपाय 2: note 1
• उपाय 2: note 3