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102. _How are Emphatic words distinguished?_ By different styles of printing.
103. _How many kinds of letters are used to denote emphasis?_ Three usually.
104. _What are they?_ Italics, small capitals, and capitals.
105. _What is Ant.i.thetic emphasis?_ Same as Relative.
106. _What is Modulation?_ Variation of the voice in speaking and reading.
107. _What is Pure tone?_ A clear, flowing sound, with moderate pitch.
108. _What is the Orotund?_ Pure tone intensified.
109. _For what is it adapted?_ To express sublime and pathetic emotions.
110. _What is the Aspirated tone?_ An expulsion of breath, the words being spoken in a whisper.
111. _What is the Guttural quality?_ Deep undertone.
112. _What does it express?_ Hatred, contempt, loathing, etc.
113. _What is the Trembling tone?_ A constant waver of the voice.
114. _What does it express?_ An intense degree of suppressed excitement, or personates old age.
115. _What are Pauses?_ Suspensions of the voice in reading or speaking.
116. _How many kinds of pauses are there?_ Two.
117. _What are they?_ Grammatical and Rhetorical.
118. _What is Suspensive quant.i.ty?_ Prolongation of the voice at the end of a word without making an actual pause.
119. _What does Quant.i.ty embrace?_ Force and rate.
120. _What quality of voice is mostly used in speaking and reading?_ Pure tone.
121. _What is meant by Prose?_ All composition which is not written in verse.
122. _What are some of the varieties of Prose?_ Letters, Essays, Travels, History, and Discourses.
123. _What is a Letter as a variety of prose?_ A written communication addressed by the writer to some other person.
124. _What is an Essay?_ A written discourse on some special subject.
125. _What are Travels?_ Records of journeys.
126. _What is History?_ A record of past events.
127. _What is a Discourse?_ A performance read or spoken to an audience.
128. _Should the voice agree in style with the different varieties of prose?_ It should, and the performer should endeavor to produce the exact sentiments of the writer.
129. _What is Poetry?_ A discourse written in verse and metrical language.
130. _What is a Verse?_ A single line of metrical language.
131. _Is it correct to use the term verse in speaking of a division of prose?_ It is not.
132. _What should we call such division?_ Paragraph or Division.
133. _What is a Stanza?_ A number of metrical lines, or verses, combined according to a regular system.
134. _How many kinds of metrical language?_ Two.
135. _What are they?_ Rhyme and Blank Verse.
136. _What is Rhyme?_ That language in which the concluding syllables of the verses have a similarity of sound.
137. _How many kinds of Rhyme?_ Two.
138. _What are they?_ Perfect and imperfect.
139. _What is a Perfect rhyme?_ Where the vowels have the same sound.
140. _What is an Imperfect rhyme?_ Where the vowels have a different sound.
141. _What is Blank Verse?_ A kind of metrical language in which there is no similarity of sound.
142. _What is the Caesura pause?_ A rhythmic pause occurring in a verse.
143. _How many rules should be observed in the use of the Caesura?_ Three.
144. _Give Rule 1._ The pause should be near the middle of the verse.
145. _Give Rule 2._ It should never divide a word.
146. _Give Rule 3._ Should not separate words from their modifiers, as adjectives from nouns, adverbs from verbs, etc.
147. _Do all verses have the Caesura pause?_ They do if over three feet in length.
148. _What is meant by a Foot in verse?_ A certain portion of a line divided according to accent.
149. _When melody comes in contact with accent, which should yield?_ Accent.
150. _Is there any other rhythmic pause than the Caesura?_ There is; the demi-caesura is sometimes used.
151. _How many kinds of Poetry are there?_ Seven.
