Stressed

Sense stress is very important when reading something out loud that you've written, and want to convey the point you're trying to get across. If you take, for instance, anything I've written about "the dog", you need to apply a little deeper and louder tone to the key words, to get the correct understanding of what that piece of canine puts me thru. You have to be careful with sense stress though. If used in the wrong spot in the sentence, your thought may come off a little weird. If you were to say, "I always wear my seat belt.", that's just stating a fact. If you stress the word "always", you've given importance to the frequency of wearing your seat belt. If you were to stress the word "belt", it sounds a little masochistic. You should also be careful to not over use sense stress throughout your reading. This will leave your audience exhausted. When your done, they will have felt like they've just done 200 reps on the bench press. Too much of a good thing adds stress to sense stress.(Scratch your head after that sentence). Still , you don't want to speak in monotone either, unless you're reading a bedtime story to small children. You don't want to have to poke your audience with a stick after you've read them something. Reading in monotone can kill an exciting piece of writing, while using proper sense stress can sell a rather boring subject. So learn to moderate, because sense stress, in the wrong hands, can "stress out" the "sensitive", and cause either "sensory overload", or "sensory deprivation", depending on how you appeal to the "sense" of hearing. Whew! I may need to find a piece of bubble wrap after that run on:)