7. What is the effect of a lack of emphasis?

 

8. Read the selections on pages 30 and 48, emphasizing every word. What is the

effect on the emphasis?

 

9. When is it permissible to emphasize every single word in a sentence?

 

10. Note the emphasis and subordination in some conversation or speech you have

heard. Were they well made? Why? Can you suggest any improvement?

 

11. From a newspaper or a magazine, clip a report of an address, or a

biographical eulogy. Mark the passage for emphasis and bring it with you to

class.

 

12. In the following passage, would you make any changes in the author's

markings for emphasis? Where? Why? Bear in mind that not all words marked

require the same _degree_ of emphasis--_in a wide variety of emphasis, and in

nice shading of the gradations, lie the excellence of emphatic speech_.

 

I would call him _Napoleon_, but Napoleon made his way to empire over _broken

oaths_ and through a _sea_ of _blood_. This man _never_ broke his word. "No

Retaliation" was his great motto and the rule of his life; and the last words

uttered to his son in France were these: "My boy, you will one day go back to

Santo Domingo; _forget_ that _France murdered your father_." I would call him