so this difference, or definition which some one has given us, can perhaps do away with the technical difference of a lie and the justification of it. Someone has said that a lie is to withhold the truth from someone who has a right to know it. If we were to tell a lie at no other time, and when it will accomplish o other things, than did this lie of the Bishop and the lie of Artevan, we need not fear for the result of our lives. Synopsis of Chapter IX. I. Fore General Study and Discussion: 1. In what does unity consist. 2. What is meant by proportion. 3. Their relation to one another. II. Thought Purpose: 1. To have a central purpose or thought. ance. 3. To make all parts bear together on main object of speech. III. Delivery Purpose: 1. To bring out each thought in proportion to its importance by proper "Time" and "Thought Discrimination." 2. To make central thought stand out clear and plain. 3. To avoid sameness and monotony in deliv ery. IV. Assignment: Prepare and give at your next session a fiveminute extempore speech paying due and special attention to Unity and Proportion. t QUESTIONS ON LESSON IX. Paragraph I. .1-In what does unity consist? -What is here stated to be worthy the highest effort of the student of Public Speaking? 3. What is apt to destroy the unity of a speech? 4. What was Judge Hoar's Method for a five minute speech? 5. What is another good way to secure unity? Paragraph II. 1. What is meant by proportion? 2. The amount of time and attention given to each point or proposition should be in proportion to what? 3. What is another way to make plain to your mind the meaning of proportion? 4. What is the best way to avoid making your introduction bigger than your speech? 5. Whenever called upon to make a speech what should you do? 6. Discuss the example given here of the minister in a short speech. Paragraph III. 1. Are unity and proportion in speech-making closely related to each other? 2. What is Webster's defiinition of "unity?" 3. Are there any two principles in extempore speaking more important than unity and proportion? 4. Are there any principles more often violated? Paragraph IV. 1. What should every speech have? 2. What will secure definiteness of results in the end? 3. What should be the aim of every speaker? 4. What is a fault with most speakers? 5. What are the three steps given according to Lyman Abbott? Paragraph V. 1. What is necessary for the speaker to do? 2. What should be carefully though out beforehand? 3. What should you have clearly in mind? 4. Should it require about as much time to prepare an extemporaneous speech properly as to prepare a manuscript? Paragraph VI. 1. What should the speaker do after he has decided on what the Central Thought is to be? 2. What is said here about the use of illustrations? 3. -How will the skilled speaker marshall his facts? 4. What should all anecdotes have as their object? 5. Give the substance of the quotation from Pittenger. Paragraph VII. 1. What should the speaker understand in order to gain more effective delivery? 2. What is the real study of delivery? 3. 4. 5. What does the way in which a speaker utters his words show? Paragraph VIII. 1. What is the province of one's delivery? 2. Is it enough that the speaker have the thought clear in his own mind? What else is necessary. 3. In what do many of our clearest and best thinkers fail? Why? 4. What is just as necessary as to study how to construct a speech? 5. State three things the speaker must learn in order to have good delivery. 6. 7. What is the trouble with most beginning speakers? In what is the real power of a speaker shown? Paragraph IX. 1. What will spoil the effect of any speech? 2. What is meant by "variety" in delivery? 3. 4. What is one of the best ways to avoid monotony in delivery? 5.- -What is the highest type of oratory? 6. Tell the story of the little girl in the church. this illustrate? What does 7. What should the student do in solving this problem? 8. What does Canon Fleming say? |