Chapter 5: Voice QUESTIONS NAME:
1. When the diaphragm
expands and the chest cavity is enlarged, what is created?
2. What is another name for the breathing process?
3. Breath
control is important to good ________ control.
4. What sound does your voice make if you do not
use your vocal chords?
5. When expelled air passes through the vocal chords, it makes sounds. This stage of voice production is called
_______________.
6. What four parts of your body make your voice resonate?
7. Define articulation.
8. What are the two kinds of articulators? What is the
difference between the two?
9. Name six
weak qualities a voice can have that detract from the way it sounds to
others.
10. Explain the difference between volume and intensity.
11. When a speaker varies his volume and intensity, what does this give to key words or phrases?
12. If as a beginning speaker, you prepared
enough material for a five minutes speech, but it only lasts three minutes,
what does this say about your rate of
speaking?
13. What three things does pause add to a speech?
14. What
is the process called framing?
15. What is pitch?
16. What is another word for articulation?
17. What are the four most common problems in
articulation that are really quite easy to correct?
18. Look at the
sample on page 83. Notice how the
passage is marked, indicating pauses, intensity, volume, rate, etc. Mark the passage on the back with those
marks, indicating how you would read it aloud.
(see page 83)
A Sad Rat
Once there was a young rat
named Arthur, who could never make up his mind.
Whenever the other rats asked him if he would like to go out with them,
he would answer, “I don’t know.” When
they said, “Would you like to stay at
home?” he wouldn’t say yes or no either.
He would always resist making a choice.
One day his aunt said to him,
“Now, look here. No one will ever care
for you if you carry on like this. You
have no more mind than a blade of grass!”
The young rat Arthur just coughed and looked wise, as usual, but said
nothing.
“Don’t you think so?” asked
his aunt, stamping her feet, for she couldn’t bear to see the young rat so
cold-blooded. “I don’t know,” was all
Arthur ever answered. Then he would
calmly walk off and think for an hour whether he should stay in his cool hole
in the ground or go out and walk.
One day, however, the young
rat’s life changed forever. It was the
day Arthur met the farmer’s cat. When
Arthur spotted the cat, he couldn’t decide if he should run left or right or
stay right where he was. While he
thought it over, the cat slowly crept closer and closer and closer, and then it
suddenly gobbled him up!