st important?
Why? What is meant by _unity_? How is _harmony_ attained? How is
strength or energy secured? Explain _tautology_ and _redundancy_. By
what is a classic style characterized? 33. What is a _paragraph_? What
should be its chief characteristic? What should the opening sentence do?
How is the paragraph expanded or developed? What is the effect of bad
paragraphing?

ILLUSTRATIVE AND PRACTICAL EXERCISES

The following extracts should be tested by such questions as these:

What percentage of the words is Anglo-Saxon? What
percentage is Latin? From what sources are there
other words? Is the diction pure, appropriate, and
precise? Are there provincialisms, archaisms,
neologisms? Are synonyms carefully discriminated? Is
the diction high-flown? What proportion of sentences
are simple? complex? compound? What proportion are
_loose_? _periodic_? _balanced_? What is the average
number of words? Are the sentences clear? Do they
show unity of structure? Are they harmonious? Are
they forcible? Can any words be omitted without loss?
Is there tautology or redundancy? Are the paragraphs
well built up? By what means are they developed?

Yea, here they heard continually the singing of birds, and saw
every day the flowers appear in the earth, and heard the voice
of the turtle in the land. In this country the sun shineth
night and day; wherefore this was beyond the valley of the
Shadow of Death, and also out of the reach of Giant Despair;
neither could they from this place so much as see
Doubting-Castle. Here they were within sight of the City they
were going to: also here met them some of the inhabitants
thereof; for in this land the shining ones commonly walked,
because it was upon the borders of heaven.--BUNYAN.

God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he
is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with
hands; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he
needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath,
and all things; and hath made of one blood all nations of men
for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined
the times before appointed, and the bounds of their
habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they
might feel after him,