1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 91 pages of information about 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading.

1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 91 pages of information about 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading.

  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.

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