QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES

 

1. Give original examples of each kind of reproductive imagination.

 

2. Build two of these into imaginary incidents for platform use, using your

productive, or creative, imagination.

 

3. Define (_a_) phantasy; (_b_) vision; (_c_) fantastic; (_d_) phantasmagoria;

(_e_) transmogrify; (_f_) recollection.

 

4. What is a "figure of speech"?

 

5. Define and give two examples of each of the following figures of speech[30].

At least one of the examples under each type would better be original. (_a_)

simile; (_b_) metaphor; (_c_) metonymy; (_d_) synecdoche; (_e_) apostrophe;

(_f_) vision; (_g_) personification; (_h_) hyperbole; (_i_) irony.

 

6. (_a_) What is an allegory? (_b_) Name one example. (_c_) How could a short

allegory be used as part of a public address?

 

7. Write a short fable[31] for use in a speech. Follow either the ancient form

(AEsop) or the modern (George Ade, Josephine Dodge Daskam).

 

8. What do you understand by "the historical present?" Illustrate how it may be

used (_ONLY_ occasionally) in a public address.