1.  What is pronunciation? 2.  What is it that is called Orthoepy? 3.  What knowledge does pronunciation require? 4.  What are the just powers of the letters? 5.  How are these learned? 6.  Are the just powers of the letters in any degree variable? 7.  What is quantity? 8.  Are all long syllables equally long, and all short ones equally short? 9.  What has stress of voice to do with quantity? 10.  What is accent? 11.  Is every word accented? 12.  Do we ever lay two equal accents on one word? 13.  Have we more than one sort of accent? 14.  Can any word have the secondary accent, and not the primary? 15.  Can monosyllables have either? 16.  What regulates accent? 17.  What four things distinguish the elegant speaker?

LESSON XIV.—­OF ELOCUTION.

1.  What is elocution? 2.  What does elocution require? 3.  What is emphasis? 4.  What comparative view is taken of accent and emphasis? 5.  How does L. Murray connect emphasis with quantity? 6.  Does emphasis ever affect accent? 7.  What is the guide to a right emphasis? 8.  Can one read with too many emphases? 9.  What are pauses? 10.  How many and what kinds of pauses are there? 11.  What is said of the duration of pauses, and the taking of breath? 12.  After what manner should pauses be made? 13.  What pauses are particularly ungraceful? 14.  What is said of rhetorical pauses? 15.  How are the harmonic pauses divided? 16.  Are such pauses essential to verse?

LESSON XV.—­OF ELOCUTION.

17.  What are inflections? 18.  What is called the rising or upward inflection? 19.  What is called the falling or downward inflection? 20.  How are these inflections exemplified? 21.  How are they used in asking questions? 22.  What is said of the notation of them? 23.  What constitutes a circumflex? 24.  What constitutes the rising, and what the falling, circumflex? 25.  Can you give examples? 26.  What constitutes a monotone, in elocution? 27.  Which kind of inflection is said to be most common? 28.  Which is the best adapted to strong emphasis? 29.  What says Comstock of rules for inflections? 30.  Is the voice to be varied for variety’s sake? 31.  What should regulate the inflections? 32.  What is cadence? 33.  What says Rippingham about it? 34.  What says Murray? 35.  What are tones? 36.  Why do they deserve particular attention? 37.  What says Blair about tones? 38.  What says Hiley?

LESSON XVI.—­OF FIGURES.

1.  What is a Figure in grammar? 2.  How many kinds of figures are there? 3.  What is a figure of orthography? 4.  What are the principal figures of orthography? 5.  What is Mimesis? 6.  What is an Archaism? 7.  What is a figure of etymology? 8.  How many and what are the figures of etymology? 9.  What is Aphaeresis? 10.  What is Prosthesis? 11.  What is Syncope? 12.  What is Apocope? 13.  What is Paragoge? 14.  What is Diaeresis?