In the paragraph beginning at the bottom of page 42, what advantage is there in the exclamatory sentences?
Would it be as well to divide the next paragraph into three sentences? Give your reasons. As the paragraph stands, is the sentence loose or periodic?
In the paragraph beginning at the bottom of page 45, what is the method of development? Why is the chanticleer mentioned last?
Are Irving’s sentences long? Do they seem long? Why, or why not?
What is the relation of the first sentence of the first paragraph on page 55 to the last?
What is the topic of the next paragraph? Do you think it would be just as well to put the second sentence of this paragraph last?
In the paragraph beginning at the bottom of page 55, what method of development has been used? Why is the “blue jay” mentioned last?
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 119.)
Do you think the first paragraph too long? Where can you divide it? What is the test of the length of a paragraph?
[199] At the bottom of page 67, do you think the first sentence of the paragraph the topic? or is it the last sentence? Give reasons.