. The practical elocutionist; an extensive collection of recitations, selected & arranged expressly for school use, with a few plain rules for inflection, modulation, gesture and action, and rhetorical punctuation ... DIAGRAM IV. INVOCATORY POSITION. B 5 10 THE PRACTICAL ELOCUTIONIST. Diagram 5.—Figures (a) and (Z>), in this diagram,represent two speakers in a dialogue; the former in anattitude of entreaty, and the latter of DIAGRAM V.—ENTREATY AND DENIAL. Diagram 6.—This diagram shows the position inwhich a boy should stand, who is being addressed byanother. A speaker who delivers
. The practical elocutionist; an extensive collection of recitations, selected & arranged expressly for school use, with a few plain rules for inflection, modulation, gesture and action, and rhetorical punctuation ... DIAGRAM IV. INVOCATORY POSITION. B 5 10 THE PRACTICAL ELOCUTIONIST. Diagram 5.—Figures (a) and (Z>), in this diagram,represent two speakers in a dialogue; the former in anattitude of entreaty, and the latter of DIAGRAM V.—ENTREATY AND DENIAL. Diagram 6.—This diagram shows the position inwhich a boy should stand, who is being addressed byanother. A speaker who delivers himself singly to anauditory, and one who addresses another speaker inview of an auditory, are under very different predica-ments;—the first, has only one object to address—thelatter, has two; for, if a speaker were to address theperson to whom he speaks, without any regard to thepoint of view in which he stands with respect to theaudience, he would be apt to turn his back upon them,and to place himself in ungraceful positions. In adialogue, each speaker should stand obliquely, thus,— / audience. \ and chiefly make use of one hand only, and INTRODUCTION. 11 that one most remote from the audience, throwingthe weight of the body also on that side. It must be
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