parenthetical expression like the following:

 

He started--_that is, he made preparations to start_--on September third.

 

6. Speak the following lines with as marked variations in pitch as your

interpretation of the sense may dictate. Try each line in two different ways.

Which, in each instance, is the more effective--and why?

 

What have I to gain from you? Nothing.

 

To engage our nation in such a compact would be an infamy.

 

Note: In the foregoing sentence, experiment as to where the change in pitch

would better be made.

 

Once the flowers distilled their fragrance here, but now see the devastations of

war.

 

He had reckoned without one prime factor--his conscience.

 

7. Make a diagram of a conversation you have heard, showing where high and low

pitches were used. Were these changes in pitch advisable? Why or why not?

 

8. Read the selections on pages 34, 35, 36, 37 and 38, paying careful attention

to the changes in pitch. Reread, substituting low pitch for high, and vice