94. How many kinds of style in reading?
Five.
95. What are they?
Description, Argument, Narration, Persuasion,
Exhortation.
96. What should be characteristic of
the Descriptive style?
The Speaker should use the same manner
that he would if he were
actually
describing the thing spoken of.
97. What should be characteristic of
the Argumentative style?
Directness and earnestness.
98. What should characterize the Narrative?
The Reader should proceed as though relating
his own experience.
99. What the Persuasive?
Those tones, looks, and gestures which
bring conviction to the
hearer.
100. What should characterize the Exhortative?
The performer should appeal, beseech,
and implore, as the case may
require.
101. What is the Slur?
The smooth gliding of the voice in parenthetic
clauses, etc.
102. How are Emphatic words distinguished?
By different styles of printing.
103. How many kinds of letters are
used to denote emphasis?
Three usually.
104. What are they?
Italics, small capitals, and capitals.
105. What is Antithetic emphasis?
Same as Relative.
106. What is Modulation?
Variation of the voice in speaking and
reading.
107. What is Pure tone?
A clear, flowing sound, with moderate
pitch.
108. What is the Orotund?
Pure tone intensified.
109. For what is it adapted?
To express sublime and pathetic emotions.
110. What is the Aspirated tone?
An expulsion of breath, the words being
spoken in a whisper.
111. What is the Guttural quality?
Deep undertone.
112. What does it express?
Hatred, contempt, loathing, etc.
113. What is the Trembling tone?
A constant waver of the voice.
114. What does it express?
An intense degree of suppressed excitement,
or personates old age.
115. What are Pauses?
Suspensions of the voice in reading or
speaking.
116. How many kinds of pauses are there?
Two.
117. What are they?
Grammatical and Rhetorical.
118. What is Suspensive quantity?
Prolongation of the voice at the end of
a word without making an
actual
pause.
119. What does Quantity embrace?
Force and rate.
120. What quality of voice is mostly
used in speaking and reading?
Pure tone.
121. What is meant by Prose?
All composition which is not written in
verse.
122. What are some of the varieties
of Prose?
Letters, Essays, Travels, History, and
Discourses.