The Oral Interpretation of Literature

achieve Aimee Slocum alliteration Alma aloud Auden audience Bassett Bible Carson chapter characters choose Company Copyright criticism develop discussion Dorothy Wordsworth drama effect elements Ellisville emotional empathy essay Eudora Welty evaluate experience factors feel fiction figures of speech fluoridation give idea imagery Index introduction Japs journal language Last Duchess Lily Daw listeners literary literature manuscript material meaning meter Miss Welty mood narrative narrator offered onomatopoeia oral interpretation oral reader oral reading person pitch play plot poem poet poetry present preter prose Reprinted by permission response rhyme rhythm Robert Frost Robert Penn Warren selection short story silent reading sound speaking staged reading stanza student style Summer and Smoke symbolism T. S. Eliot tank tempo theme thought Three Ladies tion tone trench understanding voice W. H. Auden Watts Welty's William Faulkner words Wordsworth writing xylophone York