your subject:

 

What is it, and what is it not? What is it like, and unlike? What are its

causes, and effects? How shall it be divided? With what subjects is it

correlated? What experiences does it recall? What examples illustrate it?

 

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES

 

1. What would be the effect of adhering to any one of the forms of discourse in

a public address?

 

2. Have you ever heard such an address?

 

3. Invent a series of examples illustrative of the distinctions made on pages

232 and 233.

 

4. Make a list of ten subjects that might be treated largely, if not entirely,

by exposition.

 

5. Name the six standards by which expository writing should be tried.

 

6. Define any one of the following: (_a_) storage battery; (_b_) "a free hand;"

(_c_) sail boat; (_d_) "The Big Stick;" (_e_) nonsense; (_f_) "a good sport;"

(_g_) short-story; (_h_) novel; (_i_) newspaper; (_j_) politician; (_k_)

jealousy; (_l_) truth; (_m_) matinee girl; (_n_) college honor system; (_o_)