The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on Elocution ...: With Biographical Sketches, and Copious Notes: Adapted to the Use of Students in Literature, Book 5A.S. Barnes & Company, 1871 - 581 pages |
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... RISING INFLECTION , the FALLING INFLECTION , and the CIR- CUMFLEX . 3. THE RISING INFLECTION is the upward bend or slide of the voice ; as , Do you love your home ? 4. THE FALLING INFLECTION is the downward bend or slide of the voice ...
... RISING INFLECTION , the FALLING INFLECTION , and the CIR- CUMFLEX . 3. THE RISING INFLECTION is the upward bend or slide of the voice ; as , Do you love your home ? 4. THE FALLING INFLECTION is the downward bend or slide of the voice ...
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... rising slide , it is marked thus same mark inverted ; as , which the pupil will see is the You must take me for a fool , to think I could do that . 8. The inflections or slides should be used on the ac- cented syllables of important or ...
... rising slide , it is marked thus same mark inverted ; as , which the pupil will see is the You must take me for a fool , to think I could do that . 8. The inflections or slides should be used on the ac- cented syllables of important or ...
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... rising , and the last the falling inflection ; though , when one side of the contrast is affirmed , and the other denied , generally the latter has the rising inflection , in whatever order they occur ; as , I have seen the effects of ...
... rising , and the last the falling inflection ; though , when one side of the contrast is affirmed , and the other denied , generally the latter has the rising inflection , in whatever order they occur ; as , I have seen the effects of ...
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