2. _How many kinds of Reading are there?_ Two.
3. _What are they?_ Silent and Audible.
4. _What is Silent Reading?_ The perusal of Language without utterance.
5. _What is Audible Reading?_ The utterance of thought and feeling, as seen expressed in written Language.
6. _What is Elocution?_ The science and art of the delivery of composition.
7. _How many kinds of Delivery are there?_ Three.
8. _What are they?_ Speaking, Declamation, and Oratory.
9. _What is Speaking?_ The utterance of thought and feeling without reference to the written page.
10. _What is Declamation?_ The delivery of another"s composition.
11. _What is Oratory?_ The delivery of one"s own composition.
12. _How many kinds of Oratory are there?_ Two.
13. _What are they?_ Prepared and Extempore.
14. _What is Prepared oratory?_ That which has been studied previous to delivery.
15. _What is Extempore oratory?_ That which is accomplished simultaneously with the delivery.
16. _What is Vocal Culture?_ The training of the organs of speech for effective delivery.
17. _What should be the primary object in Audible reading?_ To convey to the hearer the ideas and sentiments of the writer.
18. _In order to accomplish this, what should the Reader do?_ Endeavor to make the feelings and sentiments of the writer his own.
19. _What are some of the essential qualities of a good Reader?_ To read slowly, observe the pauses, give proper inflections, read distinctly, and with expression.
20. _What is Enunciation?_ The utterance of words.
21. _Under how many Divisions should the subject of reading be treated?_ Six.
22. _What are they?_ Articulation, Inflection, Accent, Emphasis, the Voice, and Gesture.
23. _What is Articulation?_ Distinct utterance of the elementary sounds, and of the combinations.
24. _Name four common faults in Articulation._ Omitting an unaccented vocal, dropping the final sound, sounding incorrectly an unaccented vowel, and omitting syllables.
25. _What is Inflection?_ Sliding of the voice upward or downward.
26. _How many kinds of Inflection are there?_ Two.
27. _What are they?_ Rising and falling.
28. _What is the Rising inflection?_ An upward slide of the voice.
29. _What is the Falling inflection?_ A downward slide of the voice.
30. _Are the rising and falling inflections both ever given to the same sound?_ They are.
31. _How is such inflection marked?_ By the Circ.u.mflex.
32. _How many kinds of Circ.u.mflex?_ Two.
33. _What are they?_ Rising and falling.
34. _What is the Rising Circ.u.mflex?_ The sliding of the voice downward and then upward on the same sound.
35. _What is the Falling Circ.u.mflex?_ The sliding of the voice upward and then downward on the same sound.
36. _What is a Monotone?_ Reading without sliding the voice either upward or downward.
37. _Give Rule 1 for falling inflection._ Propositions which make complete sense require the falling inflection.
38. _Does Emphasis ever reverse this rule?_ It does sometimes.
39. _Give Rule 2._ Emphasis generally requires the falling inflection.
40. _Where the sense is dependent, what inflection is generally used?_ The rising.
41. _Does Emphasis ever affect this rule?_ Relative emphasis sometimes reverses it.
42. _What kind of inflection should be used at the end of an interrogative sentence?_ Falling, if it cannot be answered by yes or no.
43. _Negative sentences require what kind of inflection?_ Rising.
44. _Does Emphasis ever affect this rule?_ It does; often reversing it.
45. _Imperative sentences have what inflection?_ Usually the falling.
46. _What kind of words require opposite inflection?_ Words or members expressing ant.i.thesis or contrast.
47. _What is a Series?_ A number of particulars following one another in the same construction.
48. _How many kinds of Series?_ Two.
49. _What are they?_ Commencing and Concluding.
50. _What is a Commencing Series?_ One that commences a sentence.
51. _What is a Concluding Series?_ One that concludes a sentence.