A—Composition and Rhetoric

  1. Write, first making an outline, on two of the following topics:
    1. Was Portia a lovable character—a girl who would make a good wife?
    2. The story of Lancelot and Elaine.
    3. Johnson and Goldsmith.
    4. Macaulay's ideas of the Puritans and of King Charles I.
    5. High-school fraternities.
    6. 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: passive, 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.