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.

  123. What is a Letter as a variety of prose?
  A written communication addressed by the writer to some other
          person.

  124. What is an Essay?
  A written discourse on some special subject.

  125. What are Travels?
  Records of journeys.

  126. What is History?
  A record of past events.

  127. What is a Discourse?
  A performance read or spoken to an audience.

  128. Should the voice agree in style with the different varieties
          of prose?

  It should, and the performer should endeavor to produce the exact
          sentiments of the writer.

  129. What is Poetry?
  A discourse written in verse and metrical language.

  130. What is a Verse?
  A single line of metrical language.

  131. Is it correct to use the term verse in speaking of a
          division of prose?

  It is not.

  132. What should we call such division?
  Paragraph or Division.

  133. What is a Stanza?
  A number of metrical lines, or verses, combined according to a
          regular system.

  134. How many kinds of metrical language?
  Two.

  135. What are they?
  Rhyme and Blank Verse.

  136. What is Rhyme?
  That language in which the concluding syllables of the verses have
          a similarity of sound.

  137. How many kinds of Rhyme?
  Two.

  138. What are they?
  Perfect and imperfect.

  139. What is a Perfect rhyme?
  Where the vowels have the same sound.

  140. What is an Imperfect rhyme?
  Where the vowels have a different sound.

  141. What is Blank Verse?
  A kind of metrical language in which there is no similarity of
          sound.

  142. What is the Caesura pause?
  A rhythmic pause occurring in a verse.

  143. How many rules should be observed in the use of the Caesura?
  Three.

  144. Give Rule 1.
  The pause should be near the middle of the verse.

  145. Give Rule 2.
  It should never divide a word.

  146. Give Rule 3.
  Should not separate words from their modifiers, as adjectives from
          nouns, adverbs from verbs, etc.

  147. Do all verses have the caesura pause?
  They do if over three feet in length.

  148. What is meant by a Foot in verse?
  A certain portion of a line divided according to accent.

  149. When melody comes in contact with accent, which should yield?
  Accent.

  150. Is there any other rhythmic pause than the Caesura?
  There is; the demi-caesura is sometimes used.

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