#manner_of_speaking__speech__delivery your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
supertype: expressive_style__style a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
part of: paralanguage
subtype: address.manner_of_speaking__addres the manner of speaking to another individual; "he failed in his manner of address to the captain"
subtype: catch.manner_of_speaking a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
subtype: tongue a manner of speaking; "he spoke with a thick tongue"; "she has a glib tongue"
subtype: sharp_tongue__sharptongue a bitter or critical manner of speaking
subtype: shibboleth a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people
subtype: tone_of_voice__tone the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
subtype: note.tone_of_voice a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling; "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice"
subtype: undertone a quiet or hushed tone of voice: "spoke in undertones"
subtype: elocution an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture
subtype: inflection__prosody the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
subtype: intonation__pitch_contour rise and fall of the voice pitch
subtype: intonation_pattern intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements
subtype: monotone__drone__droning an unchanging intonation
subtype: singsong.intonation a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation
subtype: caesura a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
subtype: enjambment__enjambement the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
subtype: accentuation__stress__emphasis__accent the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
subtype: tonic_accent__tonicaccent__pitch_accent__pitchaccent emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness
subtype: word_stress__word_accent the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word
subtype: sentence_stress__sentencestres the distribution of stresses within a sentence
subtype: speech_rhythm__rhythm the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry"
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