Body and Voice
The production of sound for speech
What is Phonation?
The knowledge and application of the tools needed for the craft of acting
What is technique?
The process of examining information about the listeners who will hear your speech.
What is audience analysis?
Unrhyming iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
The study of the sounds of spoken language
What is phonetics?
The principal organ for sound
What is the larynx?
The information set out by the writer or director that must be adhered to by the actor
What are given circumstances?
The assumption that you own cultural approaches are better than other cultures
What is ethnocentrism?
The combination of vowels and consonants to help achieve a particular effect
What is tone colour?
A consonant sound classification that means both lips are used
What is bi-labial?
Bashing the vocal cords together before a sound begins, usually on a word that starts with a vowel.
What is a glottal attack?
The physical pursuance of a specific goal
What is action?
An enduring concept of good and bad, right and wrong
What is a value?
The use of part of a whole, such as ""many MOUTHS to feed"
What is synecdoche?
A rapid blending together of two separate vowel sounds within the same syllable
What is a diphthong?
The reinforcement, enrichment, and blending of speech sounds
What is resonance?
Acting style that makes no attempt to imitate real life
What is presentational acting style?
Arranging speech items according to their location and direction
What is spatial organization?
Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable
Anapestic foot
Open sounds that give our speech its emotional quality
What are vowel sounds?
The resonator most variable in size and shape
What is the oral cavity?
An extension of a proscenium stage that continues toward the audience from the arch.
What is an apron?
A speaker's believability
What is credibility?
Long narrative poem, often about the exploits of hero of superhuman proportions
The only glottal consonant in English
What is 'h'?