A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture. Designed for Schools, Academies and Colleges, as Well as for Private LearnersSorin & Ball, 1846 - 3 pages |
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Absalom accent action articulation Aspiration Broken Melody Brutus Cadence Cæsar called Cassius character Chironomia Cicero combined concrete consonants crete current melody delivery Demosthenes Diatonic Diatonic Scale Dickinson college dignity direct discourse discrete distinct downward elementary sounds Elocutio eloquence emotion emphatic emphatic series employed equal wave examples excellence exercise exhibit expression Falling Slide feeling fifth fingers form of emphasis gesture give grace hand head heard heaven human voice illustrate interrogation intervals Intonation Inverted Wave king language learner long quantity MANUAL OF ELOCUTION Median Stress ment movement musical scale never octave orator oratory passions pause perfect phasis phatic pitch position practice presented principles pronounced pronunciation pulpit Quintilian racter radical reading Represent rising slide rules semitone sentence sentiment speaker speaking speech syllables Table takes the Rising taste teacher thee third thou tion tone Unaccented utterance Vanishing Stress vocal words