Some of the following words from the French are fully Anglicized; others, partly so; while some retain the French pronunciation. pûr lieu rou tïne' rou e' ta bleau' cognac (eōn'yac) côr tege (eôr'tāzh) me lange' (mā lõngz')^ quad rille' (ea dril') re gime' (ra zheem') vign ette' (vin yět ́) băd ́i nage (băd'I näzh) VII. WORDS OF DIFFICULT ENUNCIATION. Divide into syllables, and mark the accented syllables. abominably assassination inviolably insuperable carmila anthropophagi pl. indissolubly differentiation infinitesimal dicotyledonous indefatigable hypochondriacal irremediable inexplicable lugubrious ad unconformability PART II. PRINCIPLES IN ELOCUTION. CHAPTER I. EMPHASIS, PAUSES, AND INFLECTIONS. 1. Emphasis, as the term is used in its restricted signification, is the special force or energy of voice applied to words in order to give prominence to leading ideas. y 2. In its widest signification, however, emphasis is used to include any means of distinguishing words, phrases, or clauses, whether by means of force, or inflection, or stress, or quantity, or pauses. 3. A word may be made emphatic by an intense whisper; by a strong rising, falling, or circumflex slide; by prolonging vowel or liquid sounds; or by rhetorical pauses 4. As commonly used, however, emphasis relates to the degree or intensity of force. But the stronger the emphatic force, the longer are the slides, and the more (57) |