MACAULAY'S ESSAY ON MILTON.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 103.)

What makes up the introduction of this essay? Does he use the same
method in the Essay on Addison? Take a volume of his essays and see
how many begin in similar fashion. At what paragraph of this Essay on
Milton does the introduction end? Would it be as well to omit it? Give
reasons for your opinion.

Make an analysis of his argument of the proposition, "No poet has ever
triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton."

Does Macaulay give a definition of poetry on page 13, or is it an
exposition of the term?

What figure of speech do you find in the last sentence of the
paragraph on page 43?

When Macaulay begins to discuss "the public conduct of Milton," what
method of introduction does he adopt? What value is there in it?

Do the trifles mentioned at the end of the paragraph on page 55 make
an anticlimax?

What arrangement of sentences in the paragraph does he use most,
individual or serial?

Does he close his paragraphs with a repetition of the topic more
frequently than with a single detail emphasizing the topic?

Is his last sentence, in case it is a repetition of the topic, longer
or shorter than the topic sentence?

Does Macaulay frequently use epigrams? antitheses?

Find all transition paragraphs.

Find ten full sentence transitions outside of the transition
paragraphs.

Where, in such paragraphs, is the topic sentence?

In this essay find examples of the five methods of expounding a
proposition.

Which method does Macaulay use oftenest?

Is his treatment of the subject concrete?

What advantage is there in such treatment?

OF KINGS' TREASURIES.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 142.)

Do you think the title good?

Is Ruskin wise in disclosing his subject at once?

In section 3 what purpose does the first paragraph fulfill? What
method of exposition is adopted in the last paragraph? What method in
section 4?

For what purpose is the first paragraph of section 5 introduced? Is
the last paragraph of this section a digression?

Do you think the last sentence of section 9 upon the topic announced
in the first sentence? Where does Ruskin begin to treat the second
topic? Should there be two paragraphs?

Find the genus and differentia in the definition of "a good book of
the hour."

What is the use of the analogy in section 13?

What figure do