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1. What is the correct term to describe the special effect that occurs in lines like these: 'Able was I ere I saw Elba' and 'Sex at noon taxes'?
2. What is the correct term that describes all of these linguistic jokes?
A. PRESBYTERIANS are BEST IN PRAYER
B. ASTRONOMERS are MOONSTARERS
C. TOTAL ABSTAINERS: they SIT NOT IN ALEBARS
3. What is the name for a line (or longer piece of writing) in which a particular letter is systematically avoided? Example: A jovial swain should not complain / Of any buxom fair / Who mocks his pain but thinks it gain / To quiz his awkward air.
4. What is the name of a text in which all the letters corresponding to Roman numerals (c, d, i, l, m, v and x), when added together, produce a sum equivalent to a specific year of the Christian calendar?
5. As what can all of these lines be read?
a. Just a white shark
b. Space, time and relativity with a ridiculous script
c. Endless vivacity in the Argentine
6. Poetry always has tended to set itself special targets. One of them was the Echo Verse, in which at the end of every line the last two or three syllables are repeated, but in such a way that a new meaning, a new word is suggested. How should the last three syllables be re-written of these lines to obtain a suitable 'Echo'? If neither being grave nor funny / Will win the maid to matrimony ... ECHO: (1)Try ______
7. The lines of an EQUIVOCAL POEM can be read in more than one order. In what order would a misogynist be most likely to read these? (Halfway through the poem there must be a semi-colon to suggest a rest.)
1.Adam could find no solid peace
2.Until he saw a woman's face
3.When Eve was given for a mate
4.Adam was in a happy state
8. A rhopalic line is a line in which every new word is exactly one letter longer than the previous one. What would be a suitable last word for this rhopalic line? I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing __________.
9. The term cryptogram is nowadays mostly understood as meaning 'something written in code'. Yet, anything that contains a cryptic or hidden message could on principle be called a cryptogram. To what is there a hidden reference in each of these somewhat cryptic lines?
a.The lamb is one of my pets.
b.I must give it up, I grieve to say.
c. He made errors on purpose.
d. He came looking for trouble.
10. What secret message is revealed when you simply re-arrange the way these words are mutually separated? Toti Emu Lesto
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