- •Chapter I
- •Chapter II
- •Chapter III
- •In the following selection, "larger" is emphatic, for it is the new idea. All men have eyes, but this man asks for a larger eye.
- •Chapter IV
- •Chapter V
- •Chapter VI
- •2. Pause Prepares the Mind of the Auditor to Receive Your Message
- •3. Pause Creates Effective Suspense
- •4. Pausing After An Important Idea Gives it Time to Penetrate
- •6. Bring out the contrasting ideas in the following by using the pause:
- •7. After careful study and practice, mark the pauses in the following:
- •8. Where would you pause in the following selections? Try pausing in different places and note the effect it gives.
- •9. Read aloud the following address, paying careful attention to pause wherever the emphasis may thereby be heightened.
- •Chapter VII
- •I was quite right in this. He is.
- •It is, sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet--there are those who love it!
- •Chapter VIII
- •Chapter IX
- •Chapter X
- •Illustrations without number might be cited to show that in all our actions we are emotional beings. The speaker who would speak efficiently must develop the power to arouse feeling.
- •It is not to be slipped on like a smoking jacket. A book cannot furnish you with it. It is a growth--an effect. But an effect of what? Let us see.
- •Chapter XI
- •Chapter XII
- •3. Forwardness
- •Voice Suggestions
- •Chapter XIII
- •Chapter XIV
- •Chapter XV
- •23. Render the following with suitable gestures:
- •Chapter XVI
- •Chapter XVIII
- •Chapter XVII
- •It is fashionable just now to decry the value of reading. We read, we are told, to avoid the necessity of thinking for ourselves. Books are for the mentally lazy.
- •Chapter XVIII
- •In looking up a subject do not be discouraged if you do not find it indexed or outlined in the table of contents--you are pretty sure to discover some material under a related title.
- •Chapter XIX
- •In like manner, it is obvious that the field of persuasion is not open to exposition, for exposition is entirely an intellectual process, with no emotional element.
- •Chapter XX
- •Influencing by description
- •Chapter XXI
- •Chapter XXII
- •Chapter XXIII
- •14. What method did Jesus employ in the following:
- •Chapter XXIV
- •Influencing by persuasion
- •If we are to win the right for ourselves and for freedom to exist on earth, every man must offer himself for that service and that sacrifice.
- •1. (A) What elements of appeal do you find in the following? (b) Is it too florid? (c) Is this style equally powerful today? (d) Are the sentences too long and involved for clearness and force?
- •Chapter XXV
- •Chapter XXVI
- •1. Reproductive Imagination
- •2. Productive Imagination
- •2. Imaging in Speech-Delivery
- •III. How to acquire the imaging habit
- •Chapter XXVII
- •Chapter XXVIII
- •In Case of Trouble
- •Chapter XXIX
- •Chapter XXX
- •Chapter XXXI
- •Inaugural address
- •If they do not mean these things they are as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.
I was quite right in this. He is.
Every evening since the ship left Vancouver he has presided over the round table in the middle of the smoking-room. There he sips his coffee and liqueur, and holds forth on every subject known to the mind of man. Each subject is his subject. He is an elderly person, with a bad face and a drooping left eyelid.
They tell me that he is in the British Service--a judge somewhere down in Malaysia, where they drink more than is good for them.
Deliver the two following selections with great earnestness, and note how the inflections differ from the foregoing. Then reread these selections in a light, superficial manner, noting that the change of attitude is expressed through a change of inflection.
When I read a sublime fact in Plutarch, or an unselfish deed in a line of poetry, or thrill beneath some heroic legend, it is no longer fairyland--I have seen it matched.
--WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.
--CRANCH
It must be made perfectly clear that inflection deals mostly in subtle, delicate shading within single words, and is not by any means accomplished by a general rise or fall in the voice in speaking a sentence. Yet certain sentences may be effectively delivered with just such inflection. Try this sentence in several ways, making no modulation until you come to the last two syllables, as indicated,
And yet I told him dis- -------------------------- (high) | tinctly. |---------- (low)
tinctly. ------------ And yet I told him dis- | (high) ------------------------| (low)
Now try this sentence by inflecting the important words so as to bring out various shades of meaning. The first forms, illustrated above, show change of pitch within a single word; the forms you will work out for yourself should show a number of such inflections throughout the sentence.
One of the chief means of securing emphasis is to employ a long falling inflection on the emphatic words--that is, to let the voice fall to a lower pitch on an interior vowel sound in a word. Try it on the words "every," "eleemosynary," and "destroy."
Use long falling inflections on the italicized words in the following selection, noting their emphatic power. Are there any other words here that long falling inflections would help to make expressive?
ADDRESS IN THE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE
This, sir, is my case. It is the case not merely of that humble institution; it is the case of every college in our land. It is more; it is the case of every eleemosynary institution throughout our country--of all those great charities founded by the piety of our ancestors to alleviate human misery and scatter blessings along the pathway of life. Sir, you may destroy this little institution--it is weak, it is in your hands. I know it is one of the lesser lights in the literary horizon of our country. You may put it out. But if you do you must carry through your work; you must extinguish, one after another, all those great lights of science which, for more than a century, have thrown their radiance over our land!