Melody in Speech : a book of Principle, Precept, And Practice in Inflection And Emphasis
The book Melody in Speech : a book of Principle, Precept, And Practice in Inflection And Emphasis was written by author Raymond, Robert R. (Robert Raikes), 1817-1888 Here you can read free online of Melody in Speech : a book of Principle, Precept, And Practice in Inflection And Emphasis book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Melody in Speech : a book of Principle, Precept, And Practice in Inflection And Emphasis a good or bad book?
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When the emphatic word is the last of a series ; as, " Tell thou the silent sky, And lell the stars, and tell yon rising sun, Earth, wilh her thousand voices, praises God." Note. — For purposes of marking, the usual underscoring of the emphatic word is sufficient to show the culmination of the wave, while the acute or grave accent at the end will indicate its limit, and its upward or downward development. CONCENTRATION OP EMPHASIS. One of the most common faults in reading is the multiplication ...of emphasis. As the office of this inflec- THE WA VE OF EilPHASTS. 75 tion is to discriminate, it follgws, that the more words there are that receive this mark, the less discrimination there will be ; and we are driven to the i)aradoxical con- clusion that a sentence over-emphasized to make it strong must be thereby Aveakened. Not every word to which this distinction belongs in theory should receive it in practice. It will be found to conduce both to strength and euphony to. confine the emphasis to as few words as possible in the sentence — if it may be, even to a single word.
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