--DICKENS.

 

14. Invent five epithets, and apply them as you choose (p. 235).

 

15. (_a_) Make a list of five figures of speech; (_b_) define them; (_c_) give

an example--preferably original--under each.

 

16. Pick out the figures of speech in the address by Grady, on page 240.

 

17. Invent an original figure to take the place of any one in Grady's speech.

 

18. What sort of figures do you find in the selection from Stevenson, on page

242?

 

19. What methods of description does he seem to prefer?

 

20. Write and deliver, without notes and with descriptive gestures, a

description in imitation of any of the authors quoted in this chapter.

 

21. Reexamine one of your past speeches and improve the descriptive work. Report

on what faults you found to exist.

 

22. Deliver an extemporaneous speech describing any dramatic scene in the style

of "Midnight in London."