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... PAUSES . Principle of Pause ; Places for Pause ; Grammatical Groupings ; Rhetorical or Elliptical Pauses ; Prosodial Groupings ; Eu- phonic or Rhythmic Groupings in Prose THE INTELLECTUAL ELEMENT . B. DISCRIMINATION . Definition ...
... PAUSES . Principle of Pause ; Places for Pause ; Grammatical Groupings ; Rhetorical or Elliptical Pauses ; Prosodial Groupings ; Eu- phonic or Rhythmic Groupings in Prose THE INTELLECTUAL ELEMENT . B. DISCRIMINATION . Definition ...
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... pause and cast his eye back over the preceding sentence , par- agraph , or page , and so gather up the thought anew at every difficult junction ; or he may go as rapidly as pos- sible , not stopping for any reflection or review . Pauses ...
... pause and cast his eye back over the preceding sentence , par- agraph , or page , and so gather up the thought anew at every difficult junction ; or he may go as rapidly as pos- sible , not stopping for any reflection or review . Pauses ...
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... pause , or a timid inflection , or a downcast eye , will at once demand additional questions and statements . ( 4 ) A popular lecture , address , or sermon would lose a very large portion of its significance by being printed ; and yet ...
... pause , or a timid inflection , or a downcast eye , will at once demand additional questions and statements . ( 4 ) A popular lecture , address , or sermon would lose a very large portion of its significance by being printed ; and yet ...
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... pause : there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life ; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time , Th ' oppressor's wrong , the proud man's contumely , The pangs of dispriz'd love , the law's delay , The insolence of ...
... pause : there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life ; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time , Th ' oppressor's wrong , the proud man's contumely , The pangs of dispriz'd love , the law's delay , The insolence of ...
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... pauses well marked , but not abrupt ; and full quantity , which will be saved from becoming mere prolongation of sound , by the subtile , sympathetic , suggestive quality imparted by the reflec- tions and comments that momentarily fill ...
... pauses well marked , but not abrupt ; and full quantity , which will be saved from becoming mere prolongation of sound , by the subtile , sympathetic , suggestive quality imparted by the reflec- tions and comments that momentarily fill ...
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abruptness accented action amphibrach analysis anapestic appoggiatura assertion attitude bearing breath Brutus Bunker Hill Monument business waiting Cæs cæsura CHAPTER chest circumflex clause condition connection dactylic deliberative diaphragm discrimination effect element emotional energy especially euphony example expansion expressional falling slide feeling force gesture give gliding hand hath heaven heigh-ho iambic ically impulse inflection insistent intensity interpretation intervals Julius Cæsar lines listener logical Lord measure melody ment mental mind moods of utterance movement muscles N. P. Willis natural ness noble object pantomimic paraphrase passages pause phrase poetry practical properties prose rhythms purpose reader reason relations reveal rhetorical scansion Scene Scrooge sense sentence significance simply singing soul sound speak speaker speech spondaic stress student subjective suggest syllables thee thing thou thought tion tone trochaic unaccented unto usually verse vocal expression voice volitional vowels whole words
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