LIAQUAT NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY

DPT-I - 2nd SEMESTER BATCH-2020

Name: ANCHAL BAI Date: 2 December

Home Work
Summary Writing
 Summarize the following passage in about one-third of its original size.

Rhythm has an immense influence on people’s minds and bodies. By the rhythmic beating of
drums, the witch-doctors of Africa can hypnotize a whole tribe of Africans and fire them with
the lust to kill. There is an American play called Emperor Jones, the greater part of which shows
the flight of a strong and brave negro through a forest. A tom-tom is beating faintly in the
distance. At first, it is beaten at exactly the same rate as the normal pulse beat – seventy two to
the minute – but the beating grows gradually faster and increases up to the climax of the play. It
has a terrible effect on the negro. It makes him see imaginary shapes and ghosts – it rouses all his
superstition; and finally drives him into a panic so that he loses his way in the forest, runs round
in a circle and finally into the hands of his pursuers.

Rhythm works in the same way, but not so obviously, on the minds and bodies of more civilized
people. Rhythm is the basis of music and dancing. The rhythm of a military band sends a
message directly to our legs which makes it hard for us not to walk in time with the music.

Not only has rhythm this powerful influence over our feelings, but it is a fact that when anyone
tries to express strong feeling in speech, and instinct makes him tend to speak in words that
produce a regular rhythm. An orator will begin his speech in ordinary prose. But if he is speaking
on something which he has close to his heart, as he rouses to his subject and grows excited, his
words will become more and more rhythmical: he will repeat a word here, and put an extra word
in there which is not necessary to the sense of the sentence, until at last he is speaking blank
verse. And it is this rhythmical part which makes the most impression on the audience.

Some men are able to move a crowd’s enthusiasm as easily as the African witch-doctor can
move that of his tribe. An audience may be roused to the utmost indignation by an eloquent
speaker and not be able to remember any of the arguments the next day. This means that the
speaker has not impressed their reason, their intellects, but has worked on their emotions. His
own indignation has been so fierce that he has put rhythm into his speech and helped to rouse the
indignation of the audience. (303 words)

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 Give a heading to your summary.

(POWER OF RHYTHM)

SUMMARY
Rhythm has an immense influence on people’s minds and
bodies. Rhythm is the basis of music and dancing. The rhythm
of a military band sends a message directly to our legs which
makes it hard for us not to walk in time with the music. Not only
has rhythm this powerful influence over our feelings, but it is a
fact that when anyone tries to express strong feeling in speech,
and instinct makes him tend to speak in words that produce a
regular rhythm And it is this rhythmical part which makes the
most impression on the audience, It means that rhythm has a
great influence on speech also.

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Instructor
Mehr Yahya

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