EL PART I. ELOCUTION. LOCUTION is the mode of utterance or delivery of any thing spoken. It may be good or bad. 2. Good Elocution is the art of uttering ideäs understandingly, correctly, and effectively. It embraces the two general divisions, ORTHOEPY and EXPRESSION. Elocution Orthoepy BLACKBOARD DIAGRAM. 1 To secure effective reading-the only reading that can satisfy a laudable ambition-it will be necessary for the student, first, to acquire such a practical knowledge of the oral elements of the language as shall insure the precise pronunciation of the sepa rate words, with as little apparent effort of the mind as is ordinarily employed in the act of walking; secondly, to learn the definitions of unusual or peculiarly significant words in the lesson-the explanations of classical, historical, and other allusions and the analysis of all sentences that embrace parenthetical or other incidental matter; and thirdly, to acquire such a command of the perceptive faculties, of the emotional nature, and of the elements of expression, as shall enable him to see clearly whatever is represented or described, to enter fully into the feelings of the writer, and to cause the hearers to see, feel, and understand. 1 Blackboard Diagrams.-Regarding blackboard diagrams as indispensable, in conducting most successfully class exercises in elocution, they are here introduced not less for the convenience of young teachers than to serve as constant reminders, to all educators, of the importance of employing the perceptive faculties in connection with oral instruction. ORTHOËPY. RTHOËPY is the art of correct pronunciation. It embraces ARTICULATION, SYLLABICATION, and ACCENT. Articulation Orthoepy Syllabication Accent Orthoëpy has to do with separate words-the production of their oral elements, the combination of these elements to form syllables, and the accentuation of the right syllables. I. ARTICULATION. I. DEFINITIONS. RTICULATION is the distinct utterance of the oral AR elements in syllables and words. It properly embraces both the oral elements and the letters which represent them. Articulation Oral Elements 2. Oral Elements are the sounds which, uttered separately or in combination, form syllables and words. 3. Oral Elements are produced by different positions of the organs of speech, in connection with the voice and the breath. |