Quiz Questions

What are the principle organs of speech? What is Personation? Name the two Orders of the Consonants What does Bis signify? Name the Explodents Give Rule 21 What key of the voice should be most diligently improved? What is the use of the Caret as a Diacritical Mark? What is the Numerical value of S? What is the signification of Juxta? Give Rule 6 Is the letter y ever marked by Diacritical Marks? Is the word outrun compound or derivative? From what language are most words derived that end in less?

Category: READING AND ELOCUTION

What is Reading? How many kinds of Reading are there? What are they? What is Silent Reading? What is Audible Reading? What is Elocution? How many kinds of Delivery are there? What are they? What is Speaking? What is Declamation? What is Oratory? How many kinds of Oratory are there? What are they? What is Prepared oratory? What is Extempore oratory? What is Vocal Culture? What should be the primary object in Audible reading? In order to accomplish this, what should the Reader do? What are some of the essential qualities of a good Reader? What is Enunciation? 21 Under how many Divisions should the subject of reading be treated? What are they? What is Articulation? Name four common faults in Articulation What is Inflection? How many kinds of Inflection are there? What are they? What is the Rising inflection? What is the Falling inflection? 30 Are the rising and falling inflections both ever given to the same sound? How is such inflection marked? How many kinds of Circumflex? What are they? What is the Rising Circumflex? What is the Falling Circumflex? What is a Monotone? Give Rule 1 for falling inflection Does Emphasis ever reverse this rule? Give Rule 2 40 Where the sense is dependent, what inflection is generally used? Does Emphasis ever affect this rule? 42 What kind of inflection should be used at the end of an interrogative sentence? Negative sentences require what kind of inflection? Does Emphasis ever affect this rule? Imperative sentences have what inflection? What kind of words require opposite inflection? What is a Series? How many kinds of Series? What are they? What is a Commencing Series? What is a Concluding Series? 52 What inflection is given to the members of a commencing series? 53 What inflection is given to the members of a concluding series? Are there any exceptions to these rules? What causes the exceptions? What is a Parenthesis in reading? How should the Parenthesis be read? What is the use of the Circumflex? What meaning is always suggested by the Circumflex? What is the use of the Monotones? What is Accent in reading? Give an example of Emphatic accent What does Pitch signify? What is Force? How many different kinds of Force? What are they? To what does Stress relate? How many kinds of Stress? What are they? What is meant by Quantity? What is Quality? What is Movement? How many kinds of Movement? What are they? What does Expression comprehend? What is Cadence? What is a Rhetorical pause? What is Emphasis? How many kinds of Emphasis? What are they? What is Absolute emphasis? What is Relative emphasis? Is a whole Phrase ever made emphatic? For what purpose? What is the Emphatic pause? What is Antithesis? What is a Climax? What is Anticlimax? What is meant by Transition? What is Emphatic repetition? What is an Interrogation? What is an Exclamation? What is Personation? How many kinds of style in reading? What are they? What should be characteristic of the Descriptive style? What should be characteristic of the Argumentative style? What should characterize the Narrative? What the Persuasive? What should characterize the Exhortative? What is the Slur? How are Emphatic words distinguished? How many kinds of letters are used to denote emphasis? What are they? What is Antithetic emphasis? What is Modulation? What is Pure tone? What is the Orotund? For what is it adapted? What is the Aspirated tone? What is the Guttural quality? What does it express? What is the Trembling tone? What does it express? What are Pauses? How many kinds of pauses are there? What are they? What is Suspensive quantity? What does Quantity embrace? What quality of voice is mostly used in speaking and reading? What is meant by Prose? What are some of the varieties of Prose? What is a Letter as a variety of prose? What is an Essay? What are Travels? What is History? What is a Discourse? 128 Should the voice agree in style with the different varieties of prose? What is Poetry? What is a Verse? 131 Is it correct to use the term verse in speaking of a division of prose? What should we call such division? What is a Stanza? How many kinds of metrical language? What are they? What is Rhyme? How many kinds of Rhyme? What are they? What is a Perfect rhyme? What is an Imperfect rhyme? What is Blank Verse? What is the Caesura pause? How many rules should be observed in the use of the Caesura? Give Rule 1 Give Rule 2 Give Rule 3 Do all verses have the caesura pause? What is meant by a Foot in verse? When melody comes in contact with accent, which should yield? Is there any other rhythmic pause than the Caesura? How many kinds of Poetry are there? What are they? What is an Epic poem? Are there many Epic poems? Name the three Epics of greatest note What language were these poems written in? What does the Iliad describe or narrate? What does the Aeneid narrate? What does Paradise Lost describe? What is a Dramatic poem? Name some point of difference Name the greatest Dramatic writer of the English What is a Drama called that is set to music? What is a Melodrama? What is Lyric Poetry? What are Sonnets? What is an Elegy? What is an Epitaph? What is a Pastoral poem? What is a Didactic poem? What is Meditative Poetry? Name two noted Didactic poems What is a Satire? Is a Satire personal? What is a Lampoon? What is Gesture? What kind of Gesture is most appropriate? What attitude should be used in reading and speaking? Which hand should hold the book? Should a Reader keep his eyes on the book constantly? 181 Should a gesture be made while the eyes are looking on the book? In what kind of language are gestures inappropriate? 183 Should a Speaker begin to gesticulate as soon as he begins his discourse? 184 How many positions are recognized for the hand when not used in gesticulating? What are they? What are Descriptive gestures? What are Significant gestures? Name some Significant gestures of the head Name some Significant gestures of the eyes Name some of the passions of the mind What tone of voice should be used in the expression of Love? What tone of voice should be used to express Anger? Where is the best place to practice elocution and reading? 194 Should a Reader or Speaker pay strict attention to the rules of elocution? What is the Soul of Oratory? What is meant by the Compass of the voice? How may the Compass of the voice be increased? 198 Should a Reader or Speaker drink any liquid while exercising the voice? What effect does Tobacco have on the voice? What effect do Stimulants have on the voice? In faulty articulation what sounds are usually mispronounced? What Consonants are often incorrectly dropped? How may distinct Articulation be acquired? What are the most prominent Elements of all words? Which sounds should be practiced first? Can the sounds of the Consonants be given alone? What is the source of the greatest defect in Articulation? 208 What kind of Inflection is generally given to words of great emphasis? 209 When is the Inflection of a question changed from the falling to the rising? 210 In the introductory part of a sentence, where the sense is incomplete, what inflection is used? 211 The names of persons addressed in formal speech require what inflection? General statements require what inflection? 213 For the sake of harmony, what principle should govern the reader? 214 When sentences commence with verbs, what inflection is required? What is meant by an Echo in reading? Give an example of Echo 217 What inflection should be given to members of sentences connected disjunctively? 218 When several Emphatic words or members come together, how should they be inflected? What is a Simple Series in reading? What is meant by a Compound Series? What determines Accent? To whom does it belong to determine and record such usage? 223 Are there any cases in which we can trace the reason for the accent? Do we ever have two sets of Antitheses in the same sentence? Give an example How many sets of Antitheses may be used in one sentence? 227 Should there be any difference in the tone of voice used in reading verse and prose? What different style ought to be used? 229 What is the greatest difficulty met with in reading or declaiming poetic selections? What is a good method to break up this habit? 231 Why should there be a short pause at the end of each line of poetry, even where the sense does not require it? What is it that constitutes the melody of a poem? 233 What rule should govern the reader in the use of pauses and accents? 234 What tone of voice should be used in reading a Simile in poetry? 235 What, with regard to the voice, is an important object to every speaker and reader? What key of the voice should be most diligently improved? What is meant by the natural key or pitch? How can the natural tone of voice be strengthened? What is the best method of strengthening the natural key? How may low tones be acquired? How may a high key be acquired? What is meant by Rotundity of the voice? 243 In what kind of sentences is the Rotundity of the voice exemplified? 244 Which is the most difficult: to raise the voice to a higher pitch, or to bring it to a lower? What is a common fault with most public speakers? What is a good rule by which to govern the voice? 247 What are the principal styles of different reading selections? 248 What tone of voice should be used in reading a Descriptive selection? 249 What tone of voice is best adapted to the reading of a Narration? What style is the best adapted to Senatorial reading? 251 What tone is best adapted to the reading of Moral and Religious selections? What style is best adapted to Didactic reading? 253 What style and tone are best adapted to the reading of Dramatic selections? 254 What tone or character of voice is best suited to the rendering of Amusing selections? 255 Should all persons use the same tones of voice and style in reading selections?