Quiz 6

Question 1

Characteristics of sound

Answer 1

All sound—speech, sound effects, and music—is made up of the same basic elements: pitch, loudness, timbre, tempo, rhythm, attack, duration, and decay.

Question 2

Pitch

Answer 2

The highness or lowness of a sound. High-pitched sound often suggests something delicate, bright, or elevated; low-pitched sound may indicate something sinister, strong, or peaceful.

Question 3

Loudness

Answer 3

The relative volume of sound.

Question 4

Timbre

Answer 4

The characteristic tonal quality of a sound. It not only identifies a sound source—reedy, brassy, tympanic—but also sonic qualities such as rich, thin, edgy, or metallic.

Question 5

Tempo

Answer 5

The speed of a sound

Question 6

Rhythm

Answer 6

A sonic time pattern. It may be simple, constant, complex, or changing.

Question 7

Attack

Answer 7

The way a sound begins—can be hard (crisp) or soft (gradual)

Question 8

Duration

Answer 8

How long a sound lasts. Sound short in duration can convey restlessness, nervousness, or excitation; more-sustained sounds can create a sense of peace, persistence, or fatigue.

Question 9

Decay

Answer 9

How fast a sound fades from a certain loudness.
Quick decays - confinement, closeness, or definiteness
Slow decays - distance, smoothness, or uncertainty.

Question 10

Nonverbal Speech

Answer 10

Words carry meaning, of course. It is often not what is said, however, but how it is said that conveys the meaning’s overall intent.

Question 11

Emphasis

Answer 11

Stressing a syllable or a word

Question 12

Inflection

Answer 12

Altering the pitch or tone of the voice

Question 13

Speech Patterns

Answer 13

Important to natural-sounding speech and believable characterization. Mainly the lines they use make sense for the character

Question 14

Pace

Answer 14

The speed of spoken words can convey nonverbal infor- mation about the passion, urgency, or boredom of a situation.

Question 15

Mood

Answer 15

Feeling of words and sentences.

Question 16

Accent

Answer 16

An accent can tell you if a speaker is cultured or crude, an American from rural Minnesota or someone from China, England, or India. It can color material.

Question 17

Diegetic Sound

Answer 17

Sound that comes from within the story space, such as dialogue and sound effects. See also contextual sound and nondiegetic sound.

Question 18

Silence

Answer 18

The pauses or silences between words, sounds, and musical notes that help create rhythm, contrast, and power - elements important to sonic communication

Question 19

Music

Answer 19

like sound because there is pitch, loudness, tempo, tone color, and envelope but also includes melody, tonality, harmony, consonance, dissonance, texture, tempo, and dynamic range.

Question 20

Melody

Answer 20

A succession of pitched musical tones of var- ied durations. Because each tone has duration, melody also establishes rhythm. Hence melody has both a tone quality and a time quality and cannot be separated from rhythm.

Question 21

Harmony

Answer 21

A simultaneous sounding of two or more tones, although three or more tones are usually neces- sary to be classified as a chord.