Grade 5&6 Theory

Question 1

What is rate?

Answer 1

Rate is the overall speed at which we speak.

Question 2

What is pace?

Answer 2

Pace is the variation within the rate.

Question 3

What is pitch?

Answer 3

Pitch is the height or depth of the voice, it is the note on which we speak.

Question 4

What is rhythm?

Answer 4

Rhythm is the beat in Poetry or Prose.
It is created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed sylables in a line, not
necessarily in a regular order. Some Poets choose a particular rhythm for their
poems and follow a definite pattern, this is called Metre.

Question 5

What is a pause?

Answer 5

A temporary pause in speech

Question 6

What are the 4 types or pauses in speech?

Answer 6

Breath Pause
Punctuation pause
Dramatic/ emotional pause
Emphatic pause

Question 7

What are the 3 pauses in verse?

Answer 7

End of line pause
Caesural Pause(taken at the end of a lineto make the sense clear & avoid monotony)
Suspensive pause