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Show HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS OF INTERPRETATION 98 to get a clear understanding in the beginning and to form good reading habits. Climax. _ There is another kind of emphasis which we use when pile up ideas, when we purpose to make a climax. "Bloody, bawdy villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kind less villain." As every word is an idea, so each idea is given defi nitely as though it were the only one, and then the next is added with new positive spontaneity, then the next and next, and so piled up. This is the way we talk-the way we extemporize. We never see the string of words in the mind as we do on the printed page. We give forth one thought that calls forth another, and another, and so on. It is in just this manner that we should extemporize the printed page. Beware of stringing ideas in a string by the old rule of "an upward inflection on each idea until the last which should be a downward one." Not all series of ideas are climactic; some are inlusive parts of a whole and are not important as indi wish to we vidual ideas but as parts of a whole. Such a series should be read whole, and the old rule will in such a case hold good. "If we were saying to one another, 'I bought my child firecrackers, tor pedoes, skyrockets, and pinwheels' we should use inflections until we closed our sentence with 'pinwheels.' But it is quite natural for the child, greatly excited by his presents, to use downward inflection on those words, and these inflections would mark the importance, to him, of each separate gift. He would say, 'I have firecrackers, 3 Therefore we see that torpedoes, skyrockets-and pinwheels.'" purpose determines whether the individual ideas are important in themselves, or whether they are important only as parts of a whole. Precise Meaning. In the study of this step be sure to allow sufficient time for the student to gain some skill in exact reading precise but not pedantic, definite, and clean cut. Ayres taught all as a the art of reading-s-of which he knew so much-under this one step which he called emphasis .. determined, there cannot be two equally good ways determined, there is never but one best this to and best read, way it is always the reader's duty to way There he cannot be can. if find, tw right ways to read a "The read. to sense Indeed the sense . 3 .. S. H. Clark, How to Teach Reading. . |
