h line of p. 25, the figure in the complete paragraph
on p. 40?

THE GRAY CHAMPION.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 145.)

Note the successive stages by which the time is approached. (Compare
with the beginning of "Silas Marner.")

Can you feel any difference between the movement of this story and the
movement in "The Gentle Boy"?

Is there any difference in the length of the sentences? (Remember that
the independent clauses of a compound sentence are very nearly the
same as simple sentences.)

Is there any difference in the proportion of verbs and verbals? What
parts of speech have almost disappeared?

ROGER MALVIN'S BURIAL.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 145.)

Why is the first paragraph needed?

Why could the incident in the first paragraph on p. 50 not be omitted?
Do you find it later?

How many chapters could you divide the story into? What is the basis
of division?

Why did not Hawthorne tell the result of the shot at once?

A plot is usually made by introducing more than one cause, by hiding
one of the causes, or by holding back an effect. Which in this story?

Is there a change of movement between the beginning and the end of the
story? Look at the last two pages carefully. How has the author
expressed the intensity of the situation?

Does the story end when it is finished?

THE WEDDING KNELL.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 145.)

Of the three common ways of giving uncertainty to a plot, which has
been used?

Do you call this plot more complicated than those of the other tales
studied?

Why does the author say, at the top of p. 72, "necessary preface"?
Could it not be omitted? If not, what principle of narrative
construction would be violated by its omission?

Why has he introduced the last paragraph on p. 74 reaching over to p.
75?

THE AMBITIOUS GUEST.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 40.)

In what order are the elements of the story introduced?

Pick out phrases which prepare you for the catastrophe.

Can you detect any difference in the movement of the different parts
of the story? What aids its expression?

THE GOLD-BUG.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 120.)

Would you have been satisfied if the story had stopped when the
treasure was discovered? What