Oral English, Cadence, Speech & Performance¶

Expressive Command

What you will develop¶

Turn written English into intelligible, persuasive, memorable speech and compose with the ear as well as the eye.

Before you begin¶

Recorded prerequisites:

• Grammar & Sentence Architecture
• Diction, Semantics, Idiom & Lexical Precision
• Cohesion, Paragraphs & Information Flow
• Rhetoric, Argument, Audience & Occasion
• Image, Figurative Language & Analogy
• Voice, Tone, Register & Persona
• Narrative: Point of View, Time, Scene & Summary
• Dialogue, Drama & Subtext
• Poetry: Rhythm, Meter, Line & Sound
• Essay, Exposition, Definition & Criticism
• Reading literature as a whole work
• Imitation, Transformation & Register Translation

Study and practice¶

This is a study outline. A complete practice sequence is not yet available.

• breath group
• stress
• pause
• cadence
• emphasis
• pace
• pitch contour
• rhetorical period
• spoken register
• memorization
• delivery
• audience feedback

Mark prose for breath, stress, pause, pace, and emphasis, then revise syntax to improve live intelligibility.¶

Reconstruct

Deliver a short argument extemporaneously from an outline rather than reading sentences.¶

Transfer

Use rhetorical repetition, parallelism, cadence, and timing without sounding accidental or inflated.¶

Break / Bound

Diagnose the difference between a text that reads well silently and one that works when heard once.¶

Check / Defend

Intended demonstration¶

Read-aloud revision + extemporaneous speech + oral defense

This describes the intended standard, not a validated assessment or a claim of mastery.

Reading options¶

Assigned readings, where available, appear in the practice sequence above. These additional recommendations are not all required reading.

• Hamlet soliloquies and speeches
• Selected speeches + Narrative passages (reading area; selection needed)

Continue¶

Connections above reflect recorded prerequisites, not a compulsory calendar.

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