Is the detail at the end of the paragraph beginning on the middle of page 71 upon the topic of the paragraph? Is it good there? How do you know that Usher did not say “him”?
Of the paragraph on page 73, what sentence is the topic?
What proportion of the paragraphs have topic sentences? Have the others topics? Give them for the paragraphs on the first five pages.
What method of paragraph development has Poe adopted in the paragraph beginning in the middle of page 81? What is the relation between the opening and the close of the paragraph? Why is the middle needed?
Do you like the second sentence of the next paragraph? What is there disagreeable in it?
As you read along do the paragraphs run into one another? Is such a condition good?
SILAS MARNER.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 83.)
Divide paragraphs on pages 10 and 11. What is the topic of each of the new paragraphs?
In the first paragraph of chapter two each sentence grows out of the one preceding. Put two lines under the words in each sentence which are the source of the next sentence. Draw one line under the words in each sentence which refer back to the preceding sentence.
In the paragraph beginning at the bottom of page 94, what is the topic sentence? What relation has the last sentence to the first? What method of development in the paragraph?