4. Describe some of the effects of monotony in both cases.

 

5. Read aloud some speech without paying particular attention to its meaning or

force.

 

6. Now repeat it after you have thoroughly assimilated its matter and spirit.

What difference do you notice in its rendition?

 

7. Why is monotony one of the worst as well as one of the most common faults of

speakers?

 

CHAPTER III

 

EFFICIENCY THROUGH EMPHASIS AND SUBORDINATION

 

In a word, the principle of emphasis...is followed best, not by remembering

particular rules, but by being full of a particular feeling.

 

--C.S. BALDWIN, _Writing and Speaking_.

 

The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds. The same principle

applies to speech. The speaker that fires his force and emphasis at random into

a sentence will not get results. Not every word is of special

importance--therefore only certain words demand emphasis.