"Elocutionary Manual.": The Principles of Elocution, with Exercises and Notations, for Pronunciation, Intonation, Emphasis, Gesture and Emotional ExpressionJ. P. Burbank, 1878 - 243 pages |
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Page vii
... CLAUSES . - VERBAL GROUPING Articles and prepositions Pronouns Auxiliary verbs Adverbs and adjectives Conjunctions The verb to be Adverbial phrases Complements of verbs Complemental clauses IX . EMPHATICAL DISJUNCTIONS X. STACCATO ...
... CLAUSES . - VERBAL GROUPING Articles and prepositions Pronouns Auxiliary verbs Adverbs and adjectives Conjunctions The verb to be Adverbial phrases Complements of verbs Complemental clauses IX . EMPHATICAL DISJUNCTIONS X. STACCATO ...
Page viii
... clauses Antithesis involved in emphasis Suggested antithests the most emphatic Effect of changing the emphatic word in a sentence II . EXAMPLES OF EMPHATIC ANALYSIS " The Burial of Sir John Moore " " Lear " III . REPETITIONS " On Poetry ...
... clauses Antithesis involved in emphasis Suggested antithests the most emphatic Effect of changing the emphatic word in a sentence II . EXAMPLES OF EMPHATIC ANALYSIS " The Burial of Sir John Moore " " Lear " III . REPETITIONS " On Poetry ...
Page xix
... clause following clause in a sort of tune . which prevails merely by the force of habit . The voice of every individual is apt to partake too much of a uniformity of melody ; but we have no difficulty in understanding the intention of ...
... clause following clause in a sort of tune . which prevails merely by the force of habit . The voice of every individual is apt to partake too much of a uniformity of melody ; but we have no difficulty in understanding the intention of ...
Page xx
... clause is susceptible of various meanings , according as its different words are rendered prominent by em- phasis . " There will always be some word or words more necessary to be understood than others . Those things which have been ...
... clause is susceptible of various meanings , according as its different words are rendered prominent by em- phasis . " There will always be some word or words more necessary to be understood than others . Those things which have been ...
Page 83
... CLAUSES . VERBAL GROUPING . 31. Words are not pronounced singly , and with inde- pendent inflexions , but in accentual groups . The gram- matical principles on which they are collocated , furnish a INFLEXION , 83 Gamut of the inflexions ...
... CLAUSES . VERBAL GROUPING . 31. Words are not pronounced singly , and with inde- pendent inflexions , but in accentual groups . The gram- matical principles on which they are collocated , furnish a INFLEXION , 83 Gamut of the inflexions ...
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accented syllable action adverb antithesis articulation blood body brave breath Brutus Cæsar clause compound dead death Diphthong doth earth effect Elocution emphasis emphatic exercise expressive fall fear feel fool gesture give glottis grammatical grief hand happy hath head heart heaven honour house of York idea imitative implied inflexion labial larynx letters light lingual lips look lord marked mind modulation monophthong motion motley fool mouth nature never night notation nounced o'er P. J. Bailey passion pause phatic pitch poor predicate principle pronounced pronunciation reading rising Scotch sense sentence separate Shakespeare smile soft palate sorrow soul speak speaker spirit syllables tears tence thee thine things thou thought tion tones tongue unaccented unemphatic utterance verb Visible Speech vocal voice vowel sound W. E. Aytoun weep wind words wretched