Not only does it suggest motion, but it tells the direction of the movement suggested. Any child can tell in which direction the arrow and the ducks are flying.
There is
Another Meaning
to this figure. It is a wedge, and means cleaving—entering into—(Figs. 230, 231, 232, and 233). But when one views it from the opposite direction the meaning is just the opposite to a wedge. It now means reception (Fig. 234). The mouse is entering and the alligator is receiving.
Draw All Your Figures as Large as the Paper Will Permit
you to make them; otherwise the audience, or some persons in the back part of the audience, will miss part of your talk, and that will spoil their enjoyment and diminish your applause.
Upon a new sheet of paper draw a horizontal line (Fig. 235), and explain that
This Line Means Repose.
It is the position a person assumes in sleep; it is the surface of the ocean during a calm (Fig. 236).