Studying the short-story / Sixteen short-story classics with introductions, notes and a new laboratory study method for individual reading and use in colleges and schools.

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SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS FOR STUDY

1. Using the term “Emotion”[22] broadly, make a list of all the emotions you can.

2. Which of these are displayed in “The Last Class”?

3. Which in “Without Benefit of Clergy”?

4. Cite different passages, by referring to the numbered paragraphs, in which certain specific emotions are displayed.

5. Do you notice any emotional expressions which seem to you to be either extravagant, or weak, or in any way untrue to life?

6. Point out how the author conveys the ideas of emotion, such as by emotional words, gestures, attitudes, etc.

7. Write five short original paragraphs expressing five different emotions, using varied means of conveying the impressions of strong feeling.

8. Select from some magazine a story of the emotional type, and point out in a few words why you consider it to be a typically emotional story.