6. — (Section 60) — Find in a recent novel or short story three good specimens of description in which the fundamental image is used.

7.- (Section 60) - Discover a fundamental image which may be used effectively in describing one of the following objects. Write the description. 1. The full moon. 2. An elm tree. 3. An old-fashioned garment. 4. The interior of a theatre or other public building. 5. A high-jumper in mid-air. 6. An extinct animal.

8.- (Section 61) - Is the scene described in the following paragraph made clear to you in all particulars? If not, point out wherein it is obscure, and why. Rewrite it in accordance with your own ideas.

The night that followed was breathless and beautiful. In the southeast, under the moon, the water stretched in a stainless field of light, flashing but still as a sheet of looking-glass; our sails glowed blandly like starlight itself as they rose one above another into the whitened gloom in whose clear profound many meteors were darting, leaving a smoke of spangles for all the world like sky-rockets under the large, trembling stars. Lovely they were; but for the moon I think many had studded the water with points of light to ride and widen upon the black and noiseless lift of swell, thick and sluggish as though it were oil that ran, and scarcely putting three moons' breadth of motion into our mastheads, though it sweetened the air with the rain of dew it softly beat out of the canvas. - W. C. Russell: A Three-stranded Yarn.

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(Section 62) Find three specimens of effective description in some piece of fiction which you are reading for the first time. Make a concise statement of the reason why each selection is judged to be good.

10. (Section 62) - Find three specimens of poetical description, and give reasons for their effectiveness.

11. (Section 62)-Find three specimens of poetry or prose, describing (a) flowers, or (b) fruits, or (c) trees, or

(d) the appearance of the sea, or (e) clouds, or (ƒ) faces, or (g) the sky, or (h) the sun, or (i) the moon, or (j) birds, or (k) mountains, or (1) rivers, or (m) rain, or (n) snow, or (0) fire.

12. (Section 62) - Find specimens of poetry or prose, describing (a) the sound of the human voice, or (b) the song of birds, or (c) the cries of animals, or (d) the sound of waves on the shore, or (e) the sound of the wind, or (ƒ) the sound of a waterfall, or (g) the sound of music, or (h) the sounds made by insects.

13. (Section 62) — Describe briefly and as vividly as you can, (a) the appearance of the surface of a lake when a fine rain is falling, (b) a spray of ivy against a wall, (c) the face of an old man, (d) a statue, (e) an autumn leaf, (ƒ) a poplar tree when the wind is blowing, (g) frost on the sidewalk, (h) a lichen, () a Persian rug, (j) a ripe grape, (k) a soap-bubble the instant before it bursts, (1) a landscape seen through the heated air rising from a fire, (m) a flock of wild geese flying south, (n) a squirrel clinging to a tree. The description may be written as if it were part of a narrative.

14. (Section 62) Describe briefly and as vividly as you can, (a) the cry of the tree-toads, (b) the call of the quail, (c) the chirp of the katydid, (d) the lowing of a cow, (e) the shriek of a parrot, (ƒ) the hooting of an owl, (g) the song of the meadow-lark, (h) the song of the mocking-bird, (i) the sound of a fire-bell, (j) the sound of clocks striking one at night in a city, (k) the sound of a threshing-machine at full speed, (1) the sound of rain on the roof, (m) the sound of wind in the telegraph wires, (n) the sound of wind blowing through the keyhole, (o) the sound of the deepest tones of an organ, (p) the sound of an automobile passing rapidly. The description may be written as if it were part of a narrative.

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(Section 62) (a) Write a brief description of a telephone transmitter as it might appear to a man who was greatly exasperated by its failure to work in an emergency.

(b) Describe some natural object as seen first at a time of depression, disappointment, or grief, then as it is seen in a joyful mood.

(c) Describe the scene in Olde's Before Sunrise (Figure 1)

as it would appear to some one who, emerging from the edge of a neighboring wood, came upon it unexpectedly.

(d) Compare the two representations of an ocean wave in Hokusai's The Wave, and Aivazowski's The Storm (Figures 2 and 3).

(e) Describe (1) the appearance of a recitation room as

seen for an instant through a partly opened door, or (2) the appearance of the spectators at a foot-ball game at the moment of greatest suspense.

FIGURE 4.

(f) Describe the interior of a reading room in the evening.

(g) Describe the tower of a church as it appears when the observer approaches it from a distance.

(h) Describe a landscape as it would appear (1) if it were gradually disclosed to the observer by the dispersion of a dense fog, or (2) if one were looking over the shoulder of a painter who was making a rapid

sketch of it in colors, or (3) if one were watching the development of a negative, or (4) if one were observing the cleaning of an old, dirt-colored oil painting from which the outlines of the valley emerged bit by bit.

(i) Portray the appearance of a recitation room at the instant when the class is dismissed. Write as if describing an instantaneous photograph of the scene.

(j) Describe the face of The Laughing Boy by Velasquez (Figure 4).

1.- (Sections 66-68) simple narrative. Note or climax.

Narration.

Study the following specimens of any violations of unity, sequence,