What does pausing before a certain word in the middle of a sentence provide for the listener?
a signal that a sound effect will occur soon

a reason to go back and quickly reread the text

a cue that an important word might follow

a moment to look up new terms

The correct answer is C. Pausing before a certain word in the middle of a sentence signals that an important word might follow.

When delivering a speech, a speaker can pause effectively to highlight key ideas. A brief pause is a good signal to the audience that something important is about to be said.

Such a pause is brief -- only a second or two -- but it's enough for the members of the audience to realize that they need to listen carefully to what is ahead.

Pausing before a certain word in the middle of a sentence provides for the listener a cue that an important word might follow.

The correct use of pauses in speech has multiple benefits to the process of conveying an idea.

Pauses help your audience understand you, they  are also a good way to communicate emotion within your message, they control the overall pace of the speech too, apart from engaging your audience.

The other options are not correct because they don't represent any kind of communication technique in the tone and pace.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

answer: he would chuck as much wood as he could chuck if he could chuck wood with a wood chuck