CHAPTER II. READING. 1. What is the difference between reading and elocution? 2. What do you mean by enunciation ? 3. What do you mean by intonation? 4. What is expression? 5. What is the difference between accent and accentu ation? 6. Why do we have inflections? 7. When do we use the rising inflection, and when the falling? 8. When is the circumflex used? 9. Define monotone, and give examples. 10. What pauses do you observe in reading? 11. What is suspensive quantity? 12. What is the rule for suspensive quantity? 13. What are pauses? 14. Give rules for pauses. 15. Define personation. 16. Define pitch, force, and rate. 17. Define quality. 18. How many tones are considered under quality? Name them. 19. Define the pure, the orotund, the aspirated, the gut tural, and the trembling tone. 20. When is gentle force applied? 21. What is modulation? 22. What are the general divisions of modulation? 23. When is the circumflex used? 24. Define jest, irony, ridicule, and sarcasm. 25. What is the circumflex? 26. Is the circumflex an inflection? Why? 27. Give rule for direct questions. Give exception. 28. Questions, words, and clauses, connected by the disjunctive "or," require what? 29. When words or clauses are contrasted or compared, what principle is recognized? 30. What is slur? What delivery? 31. How is accent sometimes changed? 32. You may illustrate how emphasis puts feeling and understanding into composition. 33. Show how accent is sometimes changed by contrast. 34. Name the divisions of emphasis. 35. Define absolute emphasis. Give example. Give example. Give example. 36. Define cumulative emphasis. 42. What is the difference between an intelligent and effective reader? 43. What are the expressions of speech? 44. What difference is there between the formation of prose and poetry? 45. What is the difference between grammatical pauses rhetorical pauses? 46. Define quantity, and define the term modulation. 47. Give the divisions of rate. 48. Give the divisions of force. 49. Give the divisions of pitch. and 50. Illustrate each division of rate, force, and pitch, by an exercise. 51. Does melody yield to accent? When? 52. What difference is there between pronunciation and enunciation ? 53. What are the divisions of modulation? 54. When both inflections occur on the same syllable or word, what is the combination called? 55. What methods have you of teaching reading to primary pupils? 56. What directions can you give for the cultivation of the voice? 57. What can you advise concerning the management of the voice? 58. Define parenthesis. 59. Illustrate how parenthetical clauses should be read. 60. What determines the proper accent of words? 61. What is the censural pause? 62. How should similes in poetry be read? 63. How is language of irony, sarcasm, derision, condition, and contrast, marked? 64. Define relative emphasis. Give an example. 65. How do you teach the use of gesture? 66. What inflection does language of admiration, esteem, politeness, tender emotions, usually demand? 67. Illustrate, by an example, the pure voice. 73. What do you mean by cadence? 74. What are harmonic pauses? To what do they belong? 75. How is the cesural pause indicated? 76. How is the demi-cesural pause indicated ? 77. Upon what does the length of grammatical and rhetorical pauses depend? 78. Name the kinds of gestures. Make them. 79. Define the terms elocution, intonation. 80. What are slides? Name and define them. 81. What do you mean by philosophy of voice? 82. Describe "Adam's apple," and define its use. 83. Name and define the different kinds of breathings. 84. What is the difference between vocal culture and voice culture? 85. In elocution, what is melody? 86 How many distinct kinds of stress? Define each. |