"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 xxii
... marks of punctuation are taught in schools as measures of the pauses in reading . Children are told to stop at all the " stops . " and only at the stops , and to proportion their stopping to the supposed time - value of the stops . But ...
... marks of punctuation are taught in schools as measures of the pauses in reading . Children are told to stop at all the " stops . " and only at the stops , and to proportion their stopping to the supposed time - value of the stops . But ...
Page xxiii
... mark the gram- matical construction of a sentence . While word follows word in strict grammatical relation , no comma is inserted , though many , pauses may be indispensable ; and wherever any break occurs in the grammatical relation of ...
... mark the gram- matical construction of a sentence . While word follows word in strict grammatical relation , no comma is inserted , though many , pauses may be indispensable ; and wherever any break occurs in the grammatical relation of ...
Page xxv
... marks this relation is called accent in reference to combinations of syllables , emphasis in reference to groups of words , and modulation in reference to successions of sentences . But it is the same art in all its applications ...
... marks this relation is called accent in reference to combinations of syllables , emphasis in reference to groups of words , and modulation in reference to successions of sentences . But it is the same art in all its applications ...
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... In the passages which are subjoined for analytic exercise , mark over every spoken vowel - letter the number of its sound , according to the Scheme at par . 42 ; and indicate the sounds of y and w , when the VOWEL NOTATION . 51.
... In the passages which are subjoined for analytic exercise , mark over every spoken vowel - letter the number of its sound , according to the Scheme at par . 42 ; and indicate the sounds of y and w , when the VOWEL NOTATION . 51.
Page 53
... Mark the vowels & c . in the following Selected Words , and then compare the marking with the Key annexed . Accli'vous , acquiesce , adver'tisement , ancho'vy , answer , anti- podes , aeronaut , alienable . apophthegm , apothe'osis ...
... Mark the vowels & c . in the following Selected Words , and then compare the marking with the Key annexed . Accli'vous , acquiesce , adver'tisement , ancho'vy , answer , anti- podes , aeronaut , alienable . apophthegm , apothe'osis ...
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