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B--Intensive Reading
_Explain the following pa.s.sages:_
_a_ And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from h.e.l.l, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry "Havoc."
--_Julius Caesar_.
Who speaks, and when?
_b_ You shall digest the venom of your spleen, Though it do split you;...
I'll use you for my ... laughter, When you are waspish.
--_Julius Caesar_.
_c_ Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak.
--_Il Penseroso_.
_d_ Alas, what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse?
--_Lycidas_.
C--Rhetoric
1 Explain and ill.u.s.trate the principle of _coherence_, (_a_) in the sentence, (_b_) in the paragraph.
2 Define and ill.u.s.trate simple, complex, and compound sentences.
Write a brief account of a happening of yesterday; first write it in simple sentences only, then rewrite it in complex and compound sentences.
3 Comment on the use of the _italicized words_ in the following sentences:
The _quick_ fishes _steered_ to and fro about the body.
How terrible, in "The Ancient Mariner," are the dead _throats_ singing _spectral_ carols!
Stars are my _candles_, and the wind my _friend_.
(Autumn, 1907)
_State:_
1 At what school you studied English.
2 Under whose instruction.
3 For how long.
4 The text-books used.
A--Composition and Rhetoric
1 Write, first making an outline, on _two_ of the following topics:
_a_ Was Portia a lovable character--a girl who would make a good wife?
_b_ The story of Lancelot and Elaine.
_c_ Johnson and Goldsmith.
_d_ Macaulay's ideas of the Puritans and of King Charles I.
_e_ High-school fraternities.
_f_ The town I like best.
2 Explain the principle of _coherence_, and show how, from sentence to sentence, you have made the coherence plain in your two foregoing compositions.
3 Define and give synonyms for the following words: _pa.s.sive_, _taunt_, _sanguine_, _affect_, _fix_, _stingy_. Be equally careful about the truth and the form of your definitions.
4 Give, in a sentence of 30 words or more, three examples of parallel constructions.
B--Literature
1 Who wrote: _The Faerie Queene_, _Ra.s.selas_, _Treasure land_, _Vanity Fair_, _Tintern Abbey_, _Love's Labor's Lost_, _Robinson Crusoe_, _Locksley Hall_?
2 What becomes of _Fleance_? of _Rebecca, the Jewess_? of _Ca.s.sius_? of _Gareth_? of _G.o.dfrey Ca.s.s_? What was the result of Burke's speech on Conciliation?
3 Locate and explain the following pa.s.sages:
_a_ Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears.
_b_ Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made h.e.l.l grant what love did seek.
_c_ He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.
_d_ I am a soldier, I, Older in practice, abler than yourself To make conditions.
_e_ The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath.
BROWN UNIVERSITY
