5. Will personation aid in rendering the selection?
6. Does the power and beauty of the selection lie in narration, description, or in character drawing?
7. Name some definite things, sounds or objects described, that give color or atmosphere.
8. Is the movement:
- Slow, swift, light, heavy,
- Tripping, graceful, spirited,
- Powerful, easy, varied?
VI. Vocalization
Let our guide be as Shakespeare has so well put it:
Let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word; the word to the action; with this special observance—that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature.
1. Read the selection as ordinary conversation.
2. Now read again as enlarged conversation, or, as it were, for the ears of many.