"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 xviii
... utterance - the vowels a and o , and the letter r , have different pronunciations from those which obtain in the southern dialects of England . The student of elocution should be capable of discriminating these and all similar ...
... utterance - the vowels a and o , and the letter r , have different pronunciations from those which obtain in the southern dialects of England . The student of elocution should be capable of discriminating these and all similar ...
Page xxiii
... utterance . No great observation was necessary to discover that all emphasis implies antithesis ; but Elocutionists have jumped to the conclu- sion that the converse of this principle must needs be INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
... utterance . No great observation was necessary to discover that all emphasis implies antithesis ; but Elocutionists have jumped to the conclu- sion that the converse of this principle must needs be INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
Page xxiv
... utterance of conversation . It is only when verbal oppos- ition is inferred and not fully expressed , that we have a genuine instance of the figure of Antithesis , and nature has provided us with a distinctive intonation by which the ...
... utterance of conversation . It is only when verbal oppos- ition is inferred and not fully expressed , that we have a genuine instance of the figure of Antithesis , and nature has provided us with a distinctive intonation by which the ...
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... utterance , to supply the waste of breath . 19. The speaker should take advantage of every ces- sation of the outward stream of air to replenish the lungs . He must not exhaust his stock before he takes a further supply , but he must ...
... utterance , to supply the waste of breath . 19. The speaker should take advantage of every ces- sation of the outward stream of air to replenish the lungs . He must not exhaust his stock before he takes a further supply , but he must ...
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... utterance of voice : it will sound ah ! Continue sounding this vowel while you grad- ually cover the mouth firmly with the hand , laying the fingers of the left hand on the right cheek , and slowly bringing the whole hand across the ...
... utterance of voice : it will sound ah ! Continue sounding this vowel while you grad- ually cover the mouth firmly with the hand , laying the fingers of the left hand on the right cheek , and slowly bringing the whole hand across the ...
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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