feeling in speaking?

 

16. Write and deliver a five-minute speech ridiculing a speaker who uses

bombast, pomposity and over-enthusiasm. Imitate him.

 

CHAPTER XI

 

FLUENCY THROUGH PREPARATION

 

Animis opibusque parati--Ready in mind and resources.

 

--_Motto of South Carolina_.

 

In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est praeparatio

diligens--In all matters before beginning a diligent preparation should be made.

 

--CICERO, _De Officiis_.

 

Take your dictionary and look up the words that contain the Latin stem

_flu_--the results will be suggestive.

 

At first blush it would seem that fluency consists in a ready, easy use of

words. Not so--the flowing quality of speech is much more, for it is a composite

effect, with each of its prior conditions deserving of careful notice.