TONE

 It is a pitch variations that affect the meaning of a word.

 Shown or heard in how something is being said. It is more like an
attitude rather than a voice pattern. Emotion has a great deal of
influence to one’s tone. By using different tones, the words in a sentence
can have different meanings.
 A language is said to have tone or be a tone language when differences
in word meaning are signaled by differences in pitch.
TONAL LANGUAGE
 Not all languages have tone language, for example in English.
English doesn’t have tone language coz when a speaker says a c’ar?
With a rising pitch, the word car doesn’t mean anything different from the
same form pronounced in lower pitch. Another example is the word
“change” can be said with a downward or upward pitch and this would
not affect the meaning of the word or point to a different word.
English belongs to a different category of languages. Instead, it
assigns stress to one syllable of every word. Changing the stress can
point to a different word (PERfect, perFECT), although usually this also
leads to changes in the vowels.
 TEMPO

 Refers to the speed of speaking.

 It is conditioned by the speaker’s emotionality.
 In other words, it is a pattern of the movement of speech organs.
 An increased tempo or speed may imply boredom or tiredness
in the speakers.
 FOOT

 Is a measuring unit in poetry,

which is made up of stressed
and unstressed syllables
 TYPES OF FOOT

 Iamb- It is an unstressed syllable followed a stressed syllable.

ex. repose and phrases like ‘to sleep’

 Trochee- It is a stressed syllable followed by unstressed syllable (the exact opposite of iamb).

ex. baseball, Thank you

 Anapest- Is has two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.

ex. understand, in the dark

 Dactyl- One stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables (the exact opposite of an anapest)

ex. camera, This is a…

 Spondee- two stressed syllables.

ex. heartbreak, football

 Pyrrhic- two unstressed syllables.

ex. of the, and the

 IAMB/IAMBIC FOOT

Rough Winds/ do shake/ the dar/ling buds/ of May,

And sum/ mer’s lease/ hath all/ too short/a date.

ANAPEST/ANAPESTIC FOOT

In the midst/ of the word/ he was try/ing to say,

In the midst/ of his laugh/ter and glee,
He had soft/ly and sud/denly van/ish ed away,
THANK YOU!