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Suspensory Pauses · Gabi’s Speech and Drama Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: My name is Gabby Maddox.
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  SPEAKER_00: I run Gabby's Speech and Drama Community,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is a resource for Lambda teachers,
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  SPEAKER_00: but also potentially for parents and students of Lambda exams.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today I am going to talk to you all about suspensory pauses.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are pauses that are used to improve your verse speaking.
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  SPEAKER_00: And whatever you're doing in verse or reading for performance,
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  SPEAKER_00: they are very,
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  SPEAKER_00: very useful to become an excellent verse speaker,
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  SPEAKER_00: especially with Shakespeare.
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  But they also form part of the knowledge section for grade five
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  verse and prose.
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  So if you're studying for that exam or you're teaching someone
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  who's studying for
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  SPEAKER_00: that exam,
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  SPEAKER_00: then this will be particularly useful.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the exam,
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  students will be asked to define and give examples of three
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  different types of
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  SPEAKER_00: pause.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first two will come from a list called list A,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the final one comes from list B.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on that list,
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  SPEAKER_00: there are two possible pauses that they could choose,
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  SPEAKER_00: that the examiner could choose.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of them is a suspensory pause and one of them is a caesural pause.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, you are definitely going to get asked one of those two.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a caesural pause is a bit more straightforward.
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  It's a pause that comes in the middle of a line of verse
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  indicated by punctuation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not gonna talk about that anymore today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today,
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  I'm gonna focus on suspensory pauses because that's the one
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  that causes a few more
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  SPEAKER_00: problems and confusions.
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  The first confusion that I'm gonna clear up straight away is
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  that this is a pause
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  SPEAKER_00: to give suspense.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is completely wrong.
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  It has got nothing to do with adding suspense to your prose or
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  your verse.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you wanted to add suspense,
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  SPEAKER_00: then you might use an emphatic pause or possibly even an emotional pause.
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  SPEAKER_00: But a suspensory pause is a different meaning of the word suspense.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you suspend something,
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  SPEAKER_00: when you lift something up and hang it from a hook or from the ceiling,
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  SPEAKER_00: you are suspending it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is where this pause gets its name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now,
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  SPEAKER_00: like cesurial pauses,
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  SPEAKER_00: this pause is only found in verse and it is found in a particular place.
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  It is found at the end of a line of verse that does not have
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  any punctuation,
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  SPEAKER_00: where the meaning of that line carries on to the next line.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to exemplify that, I am going to share my screen and I'm going to