manner of speaking - Definition | Dictionary definition of manner of speaking

Definition of manner of speaking

your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally

"his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"

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the manner of speaking to another individual; catch
a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion); tongue
a manner of speaking; sharp tongue
a bitter or critical manner of speaking; shibboleth
a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people; tone, tone of voice
the quality of a person's voice; note
a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling; rotundity, roundness
the fullness of a tone of voice; undertone
a quiet or hushed tone of voice; elocution
an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture; inflection, prosody
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language; intonation, modulation, pitch contour
rise and fall of the voice pitch; caesura
a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line; enjambement, enjambment
the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause; accent, emphasis, stress
the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); rhythm, speech rhythm
the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; inflection, modulation
a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified

Type of:: 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