1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 91 pages of information about 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading.

1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 91 pages of information about 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading.

  63. What does Pitch signify?
  The place in the musical scale on which an element is sounded.

  64. What is Force?
  That property of the voice which relates to loudness of sound.

  65. How many different kinds of Force?
  Five.

  66. What are they?
  Suppressed, subdued, ordinary, energetic, and vehement.

  67. To what does Stress relate?
  Different modes of applying force.

  68. How many kinds of Stress?
  Three.

  69. What are they?
  Expulsive, Explosive, and Vanishing.

  70. What is meant by Quantity?
  Length of time the voice dwells on a word.

  71. What is Quality?
  That property which relates to the kind of voice.

  72. What is Movement?
  The degree of rapidity with which the voice moves from one word to
          another.

  73. How many kinds of Movement?
  Six.

  74. What are they?
  Very slow, slow, moderate, lively, rapid, and very rapid.

  75. What does Expression comprehend?
  The practical application of all the principles of reading and
          elocution.

  76. What is Cadence?
  The natural dropping of the voice at the end of a sentence,
  denoting completeness of thought.

  77. What is a Rhetorical pause?
  A suspension of the voice for rhetorical effect.

  78. What is Emphasis?
  Giving force and energy to certain words.

  79. How many kinds of Emphasis?
  Two.

  80. What are they?
  Absolute and relative.

  81. What is Absolute emphasis?
  Emphasis made without any contrast with other words.

  82. What is Relative emphasis?
  Emphasis used where there is antithesis either expressed or implied.

  83. Is a whole Phrase ever made emphatic?
  It is often.

  84. For what purpose?
  To give it great force.

  85. What is the Emphatic pause?
  Pause made for emphasis.

  86. What is Antithesis?
  Two or more words opposed to each other in meaning.

  87. What is a Climax?
  A series of particulars increasing in importance to the last.

  88. What is Anti-climax?
  A series of particulars decreasing in importance to the last.

  89. What is meant by Transition?
  Any sudden change in reading.

  90. What is Emphatic repetition?
  Words repeated for emphasis.

  91. What is an Interrogation?
  A statement, or assertion, put in the form of a question.

  92. What is an Exclamation?
  A statement denoting strong emotions.

  93. What is Personation?
  One person imitating the actions and manners of some other person
          or persons.

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