SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS

  1. Point out examples of rhythmical sentences.
  2. Point out figures of speech.
  3. Point out words that have been chosen because of their charm, or their suggestive power.
  4. Show how the selection rises in emotion.
  5. How do children “play on the threshold of heaven”?
  6. What “refreshing wisdom” do children express?
  7. What “divinest lessons” may we learn from children?
  8. What “undreamed of casements” do children open?
  9. Explain the last paragraph.
  10. Point out all the respects in which this selection is like a poem.