57. Q. What is the general agreement as to what style is? A. That it is the most delicate form in which thought incarnates itself.
58. Q. What are the prime excellencies in style? A. Naturalness, clearness, simplicity, conciseness, force, pertinency, variety, and beauty or elegance.
59. Q. In what three ways may clearness be developed and cultivated? A. By constantly practicing in heart and life the thoughts and ways of honesty and frankness. By thoroughly mastering a subject before publishing it. By unwearied application of the arts of rhetorical composition.
60. Q. What are preëminent, in the judgments of all critics, as models for the English-speaking tongue? A. The dramas of Shakspere and the text of the English Bible.
61. Q. What do grammar and rhetoric define figures of words to be? A. Designed and artistic deviations from the ordinary form, construction or application of words or sentences.
62. Q. What are figures of etymology? A. They are deviations from the ordinary form of a word.
63. Q. In what do figures of etymology consist? A. Either in a defect, an excess, or a change in some of the elements of a word.
64. Q. What are figures of syntax? A. They are deviations from the ordinary construction of a sentence.
65. Q. Under what headings are figures of syntax classified? A. Ellipsis, pleonasm, enallage, and hyperbaton.
66. Q. What are usually grouped under figures of rhetoric? A. Figures of poetry, figures of poetic prose, and figures of oratory.