COMM 1112 Chapter 6: Pause and Power
23 Jan 2017
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This chapter is about gaining power from pausing. I really liked a few examples used in this chapter. Light a match by holding it beneath a lens and catching the sun"s rays you would not expect a match to flame if you jerk it back and forth quickly pause and let the lens gather heat. Maple trees are not tapped continually there is a pause and you give it time to gather reserves, and then a stronger flow occurs. Pause has a distinctive value expressed in silence. While the voice is waiting, the music of the movement is going on: to manage it requires skill of the ear. Pause in public speech is not mere silence it is designedly eloquent. Developing power in pub speaking: pause either before, after, or both before and after, an important word or phrase. This principle of rhetorical pause is not easily grasped and applied.
