| A | B |
|---|
| What is it called when your diaphragm contracts when you inhale, causing your abdomen to expand? | diaphragmatic breathing |
| the connective muscle and tissue between your abdominal and chest cavities | diaphragm |
| What allows you to sustain your breath longer and use your voice more efficiently? | diaphragmatic breathing |
| What is vital for exhaling slowly and steadily? | diaphragmatic breathing |
| How is your voice different from everybody else's | when you exhale, air moves up your trachea to your voicebox which contains your vocal folds. When air moves through your vocal folds, they vibrate, which creates sounds |
| What forms vowels? | your resonators |
| what are your resonators? | the hard and soft palates, throat, and sinuses |
| How are consonants formed? | articulators |
| What are your articulators? | your jaw, lips, tongue, teeth, and soft palate |
| What is a diphthong? | two vowel sounds |
| a well timed pause | caesura |
| how fast or slowly you speak | tempo |
| how you divide into smaller parts, adding pauses to create emphasis and a rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences | phrasing |
| whether your voice is shrill, nasal, raspy, breathy, booming, and so on | quality |
