What is the repeated section of a song usually called?
AnswerChorus
The chorus repeats and often carries the main hook.
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The basics
What is the section of a song that tells the story and changes each time called?
AnswerVerse
Verses carry new lines while the chorus repeats.
Going deeper
What is the text of an opera called?
AnswerLibretto
Libretto means little book in Italian.
Which songwriter won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016?
AnswerBob Dylan
Dylan was honored for creating new poetic expressions in song.
Oscar Hammerstein II was the lyricist partner of which composer?
AnswerRichard Rodgers
Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music.
Expert level
Who coined the term mondegreen?
AnswerSylvia Wright
Wright coined it in a 1954 essay about misheard lines of a Scottish ballad.
What is an internal rhyme?
AnswerA rhyme within a single line
Internal rhymes fall in the middle of a line, not just at the end.
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