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id: 14403
title: 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading
author: Hathaway, Benjamin Adams
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  Two Greek words, signifying "To write right." _What letters of themselves form words?_ _What letter ends no English word?_ A distinct expression of the letters or sounds of a word in their An expression of the letters of a written or printed word in their An expression of the elementary sounds of a word in their proper Use a before all words beginning with a consonant sound, and use an before words beginning with a vowel sound, Diction treats of the selection and right use of words. When we use only such words as belong to the idiom of our language. The first word of every book, tract, essay, letter, etc., should 3. _What kind of words have no accent?_ 7. _Give a word in which P has the sound of B._ Words ending with the sound of k, and in which c follows the vowel.


id: 31828
title: Vocal Expression: A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation
author: Everts, Katherine Jewell
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  Let your study of the thought in these sentences hold in Let us consider together the problem of vocally interpreting this speech try to vocally interpret, to _think aloud_ this thought. never lets it escape to words like these, save now and then on a is the art of voicing the words in a phrase so that they shall assume a interpretation, in the color of tone and in the inflection of the words? ninth verse, "like a high-born maiden." Let the pitch fall in the first With the fourth line let the tone settle down to work. Let us read from the chapter called "Tom Comes Home" in the life Looking back over these studies in interpretation, let us review in true thought and emotion with definite tones of the voice or movements of the condition and again voice the thought, noting the change in inflection. Let your tone, like a thing "half


id: 4942
title: Evolution of Expression — Volume 1
author: Emerson, Charles Wesley
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  To fashion worlds in little, making form, beholder only when presented as she appears to the mind of man. expression in art, and now the statues think, fear, hate, love. The human mind, like the plant, must exhibit vitality in How good is man''s life, the mere living! (NOTE.--Let the teacher and student remember that the headings of the right objects of thought before the pupil''s mind, then stand aside and let him grow in nature''s own way. Like every organism every true work of art has organic unity; it the great-hearted man throughout the reading of the entire Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: "I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man I love not man the less, but nature more, I shall but love thee better after death. God said in heaven, "Nor day nor night


id: 8093
author: Howard, Anna K. (Anna Kelsey)
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  How was I wont to feel my pulses thrill, like a rich harpstring, yearning to caress thee, and hear thy sweet ''_My father_!'' the soft winds flung;--but thou no more, with thy sweet voice, shalt come morning of my day, I fall, which--No, Alonzo, date not the life which thou "Tell father, when he comes from work, I said goodnight to him; and mother Thy hands: Thou hast put all things under his feet. instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. chief priests, at mid-day, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and Young loving hearts, your care each day makes yet more like to you, More like the loving heart made mine when this old ring was new. If thou didst ever thy dear father love--

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  The Canadian Elocutionist Designed for the Use of Colleges, Schools and Self Instruction, Together with a Copious Selection in Prose and Poetry of Pieces Adapted for Reading, Recitation and Practice


id: 6333
title: Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
author: Winter, Irvah Lester
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  has been said that, in present-day speech-making, humor has supplanted man finds he is going wrong he must will to go right--as if many men power of a living man on dead things, how much more should that is the one great nation of the New World, the mother of American thought any man ''ud know," says I, "when the sun sinks to rest in the Speaking of the bore who calls when you are busy and never goes, Mr. Clapp said, "He is not for a time, but for all day." And what could be good work that men of letters can justify their right to a place in the Then comes the generation of the great colonial day: "I stood by the Many years ago Woodrow Wilson said, "No man is great let my voice be heard?" The next day the _Times_ sent him word ''I am,'' said he, ''like a man so


id: 34498
author: Emerson, Charles Wesley
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  and at all times; it is useful in solitude, for it shows a man his way scarcely live long enough to be condemned, while tact keeps the house in Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, Swing in your strokes in order, let foot and hand keep time, may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. Mrs. Tulliver had shed tears several times at sister Glegg''s unkindness on long-lived family; and if he was to die and leave me well for my life, "But _I_ know," said Mrs. Pullet, sighing and shaking her head; "and waiting, with tearful eyes and aching hearts, to hear good news from the 5. All this time Mr. Winkle, with his face and hands blue with the cold, And one man in his time plays many parts,

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  Evolution of Expression, Volume 2—Revised A Compilation of Selections Illustrating the Four Stages of Development in Art As Applied to Oratory; Twenty-Eighth Edition


id: 38444
author: Sheridan, Thomas
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  Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language," displays both To some degree Sheridan''s dedication to language study is evidenced in Sheridan suggested that a revival of the art of speaking would improve attending a neglect of the English language; countless writers addressed sufficient rules" in order that "the art of speaking like that of language, and the art of speaking it in public, has been attended with modern times, who neglected to cultivate their language, or to methodize art of elocution, is that of reducing a living language at best to the formed, either with respect to the English language, or the art of English language, and the art of speaking, be not in the number of it is, that the English language and the art of speaking are not taught; universities, of introducing the study of the English language, and the Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language_ (1759).

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  A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759)


id: 51109
author: Fobes, Walter K.
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  Elocution trains the voice to obey the mind, and to rightly express the voice, and get command of tone, quality, pitch, inflection, force, 1. ABDOMINAL BREATHING.--Take standing position and active chest; place 2. COSTAL BREATHING.--Assume standing position with active chest; place 3. DORSAL BREATHING.--Assume standing position with active chest; place you begin with high pitch, although your voice varies in speaking, it In inflection the voice slides up or down in pitch on a word, and by so Use any vowel-sounds, and practise the falling inflection as 3. PURE QUALITY.--Speak the long vowels in your conversational tone as Practise with long vowels on middle tones of voice, making 1. QUICK MOVEMENT.--Use exercise of chanting and reading sentences, as under "Pitch," using the middle tones of voice; and repeat the words control of voice, and can now begin elocution, or expression of thought emotional expression (that is, pitch, quality, movement, stress, force),

title:
  Elocution Simplified With an Appendix on Lisping, Stammering, Stuttering, and Other Defects of Speech.


