that verdict shall be dust, and the tongue that asks it, traceless in the grave,

many a happy home will bless its consequences, and many a mother teach her

little child to hate the impious treason of adultery.

 

--CHARLES PHILLIPS.

 

2. Analyze and criticise the forms of appeal used in the selections from Hoar,

Story, and Kipling.

 

3. What is the type of persuasion used by Senator Thurston (page 50)?

 

4. Cite two examples each, from selections in this volume, in which speakers

sought to be persuasive by securing the hearers' (_a_) sympathy for themselves;

(_b_) sympathy with their subjects; (_c_) self-pity.

 

5. Make a short address using persuasion.

 

6. What other methods of persuasion than those here mentioned can you name?

 

7. Is it easier to persuade men to change their course of conduct than to

persuade them to continue in a given course? Give examples to support your

belief.

 

8. In how far are we justified in making an appeal to self-interest in order to

lead men to adopt a given course?