6. Deliver a two-minute speech on any one of them, using chiefly, but not

solely, description.

 

7. For one minute, look at any object, scene, action, picture, or person you

choose, take two minutes to arrange your thoughts, and then deliver a short

description--all without making written notes.

 

8. In what sense is description more _personal_ than exposition?

 

9. Explain the difference between a scientific and an artistic description.

 

10. In the style of Dickens and Irving (pages 234, 235), write five separate

sentences describing five characters by means of suggestion--one sentence to

each.

 

11. Describe a character by means of a hint, after the manner of Chaucer (p.

235).

 

12. Read aloud the following with special attention to gesture:

 

His very throat was moral. You saw a good deal of it. You looked over a very low

fence of white cravat (whereof no man had ever beheld the tie, for he fastened

it behind), and there it lay, a valley between two jutting heights of collar,

serene and whiskerless before you. It seemed to say, on the part of Mr.