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Page 89
... audience.1 Let your opening sentence be one that will win your audience at once . Interest and hold your hearers every moment until the last word is uttered , and you doubtless will if you are filled with your subject and know more ...
... audience.1 Let your opening sentence be one that will win your audience at once . Interest and hold your hearers every moment until the last word is uttered , and you doubtless will if you are filled with your subject and know more ...
Page 94
... audience for a fleet- ing moment after the last words are spoken , perhaps for the space of time that it would take you to count two or three . Always give the impression that you are leaving the speech with the audience rather than of ...
... audience for a fleet- ing moment after the last words are spoken , perhaps for the space of time that it would take you to count two or three . Always give the impression that you are leaving the speech with the audience rather than of ...
Page 95
... audience should look around , for this is just the time the speaker needs the undivided attention of his listeners ... audience , is a pro- cedure that is lacking in courtesy to both . A member of an audience has the opportunity of ...
... audience should look around , for this is just the time the speaker needs the undivided attention of his listeners ... audience , is a pro- cedure that is lacking in courtesy to both . A member of an audience has the opportunity of ...
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according action Alfred Noyes amendment Articulation Assignment audience Barty breath Bring to class bylaws called chair chairman character Choose Circumflex comedy committee consonants conversation courtesy David Copperfield debate deductive reasoning definite diacritic dialect diphthongs drama Edmond Rostand English etiquette exercises Explanations expression feeling front vowel gesture give given Group individual inflections interest interpretation Julius Cæsar Key words lips main motion Malaprop Mally manner meeting Merchant of Venice method mid vowels Modern move One-Act Plays open forum pantomime pause person phonetic phrase Pickwick platform poem Polonius practice Pronounce pronunciation question read aloud rehearsals resonance ROBERT BROWNING Rudyard Kipling rules scene selection Self-appraisal sentence short speaker speaking SPEECH ATTAINMENTS Chapter speech topics stage story Story-telling student Suggested References syllables thought tion tongue Transcribe and read voice voiceless vote WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE