Speak the lyrics!
"Back in black" by AC/DC
Back in black
I hit the sack
I've been too long, I'm glad to be back
Yes, I'm let loose
From the noose
That's kept me hanging about
I've been looking at the sky
'Cause it's gettin' me high
Forget the hearse 'cause I never die
I got nine lives
Cat's eyes
Abusin' every one of them and running wild
Any mispronounced words?
None- 100
1-3 words- 50-90
4 or more words- 0
Pearls, please, pretty Penelope,
Pretty Penelope, pretty Penelope,
Pearls, please, pretty Penelope,
Pretty Penelope Pring
Any mispronounced words?
None- 100
1-2 words- 50-90
3 or more words- 0
"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Any mispronounced words?
None- 100
1-3 words- 50-90
4 words or more- 0
*If poem was read with feelings (TOV)- add 20 points
Hyperbole
high-PER-boh-lee
A figure of speech which means excess or exaggeration.
Determine the correct pronunciation & syllable stress:
ACCESSORY
A. æk SES uh ree
B. æk ses SOH ree
A. æk SES uh ree
"Here it goes again" by Ok Go
It starts out easy, something simple,
something sleazy
Something inching past the edge of the reserve
Now through the lines of the cheap venetian blinds
Your car is pulling off of the curb
Hey!
Oh, just when you think you're in control
Just when you think you've got a hold
Just when you get on a roll
Oh, here it goes
Any mispronounced words?
None- 200
1-3 words- 100-190
4 or more words- 0
Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.
Reading and writing are richly rewarding.
Any mispronounced words?
None- 200
1-2 words- 100-190
3 or more words- 0
"Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance,
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
Any mispronounced words?
None- 200
1-3 words- 100-190
4 or more words- 0
*If poem was read with feelings (TOV)- add 20 points
Quay
kee
Quays are platforms built next to bodies of water, used for loading and unloading freight or passengers.
Determine the correct pronunciation & syllable stress:
BURY
A. BUHR ee
B. BER ee
B. BER ee
"Ice Ice baby" by Vanilla Ice
Alright stop, collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop? Yo, I don't know
Turn off the lights, and I'll glow
To the extreme, I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle
Dance, go rush to the speaker that booms
I'm killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly, when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony
Love it or leave it, you better gangway
You better hit bull's eye, the kid don't play
If there was a problem, yo, I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it
Any mispronounced words?
None: 300
1-3 words: 150-290
4 or more words: 0
A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
Said the flea, “Let us fly!”
Said the fly, “Let us flee!”
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
Any mispronounced words?
None- 300
1-2 words- 150-290
3 or more words- 0
"Song of the Witches" by William Shakespeare
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
Any mispronounced words?
None- 300
1-3 words- 150-290
4 words or more- 0
*If poem was read with feelings (TOV)- add 20 points
Segue
SEG-way
Segue, which means to lead from one thing to another without a pause. (Same pronunciation as with the Segway- a motorized two-wheel vehicle)
Determine the correct pronunciation & syllable stress:
KNOWLEDGE
A. NAHL ij
B. NOH lej
A. NAHL ij
"One week" by the Barenaked Ladies
Hold it now and watch the hoodwink
As I make you stop, think
You'll think you're looking at Aquaman
I summon fish to the dish, although I like the Chalet Swiss
I like the sushi 'cause it's never touched a frying pan
Hot like wasabi when I bust rhymes
Big like LeAnn Rimes, because I'm all about value
Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits
You try to match wits, you try to hold me but I bust through
Gonna make a break and take a fake
I'd like a stinking aching shake
I like vanilla, it's the finest of the flavors
Gotta see the show, 'cause then you'll know
The vertigo is gonna grow
'Cause it's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver
Any mispronounced words?
None- 400
1-3 words- 200-390
4 or more words- 0
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock
in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock,
awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
from a cheap and chippy chopper with a big, black block.
Any mispronounced words?
None- 400
1-2 words- 200-390
3 words or more- 0
"Twilight" by Fyodor Tyutchev
Soft the dove-hued shadows mingle,
Color fades, sound droops to sleep.
Life and motion melt to darkness
Swaying murmurs far and deep.
But the night moth's languid flitting,
stirs the air invisibly:
Oh, the hour of wordless longing;
I in all, and all in me.
Twilight- tranquil, brooding twilight,
Course through me, serene and smooth;
Quiet, languid, fragrant twilight,
Flood all depths, all sorrows soothe,
Every sense in dark and cooling
Self-forgetfulness immerse,-
Grant that I may taste extinction
In the dreaming universe.
Any mispronounced words?
None- 400
1-3 words- 200-390
4 or more words- 0
*If poem was read with feelings (TOV)- add 20 points
Epitome
ih-pit-uh-mee
A person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class:
Determine the correct pronunciation & syllable stress:
FAUX PAS
A. FOHX pas
B. foh PAH
B. foh PAH
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" by Julie Andrews
It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I
Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I
Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I
Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I
Because I was afraid to speak
When I was just a lad
Me father gave me nose a tweak
And told me I was bad
But then one day I learned a word
That saved me aching nose
The biggest word you ever heard
And this is how it goes
Oh, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I
Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I
Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I
Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I
Any mispronounced words?
None- 500
1-3 words- 250-490
4 or more words- 0
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze.
That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze.
Any mispronounced words?
None- 500
1-2 words- 250-490
3 words or more- 0
"Enigma" by Edgar Allan Poe
The noblest name in Allegory's page,
The hand that traced inexorable rage;
A pleasing moralist whose page refined,
Displays the deepest knowledge of the mind;
A tender poet of a foreign tongue,
(Indited in the language that he sung.)
A bard of brilliant but unlicensed page
At once the shame and glory of our age,
The prince of harmony and stirling sense,
The ancient dramatist of eminence,
The bard that paints imagination's powers,
And him whose song revives departed hours,
Once more an ancient tragic bard recall,
In boldness of design surpassing all.
These names when rightly read, a name [make] known
Which gathers all their glories in its own.
Any mispronounced words?
None- 500
1-3 words- 250-490
4 or more words- 0
*If poem was read with feelings (TOV)- add 20 points
Rendezvous
rahn-duh-voo
An agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
Determine the correct pronunciation & syllable stress:
ENTREPRENEUR
A. en TUR puh noor
B. on’ truh pruh NUR
B. on’ truh pruh NUR