SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS

THE OLD MANSE.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 69.)

In the paragraph beginning at the bottom of page 19, what do you think
of the selection of material? Does the last detail give the finishing
touch to the paragraph? Is it a real climax?

On page 25 a paragraph begins, "Lightly as," etc. In the second
sentence "bound volume" goes back to what words in the first sentence?
"he," of the third, to what of the second? "thus it was" to what
before?

Now take the paragraph on pages 34 and 35 and trace the connection of
the sentences, drawing two lines under the phrase from which a
succeeding sentence springs, and one line under words that refer back
to a preceding phrase; also trace out the dovetailing in the sentences
on pages 6 and 7. In the paragraph on pages 18 and 19 the development
is not so. Each sentence emphasizes "the sombre aspect of external
nature." What is the law of their arrangement? (See text-book, pages
181-187.)

Find other paragraphs arranged in this way. (See pages 35, 36.)

What is the topic of the second paragraph?

Can you divide the paragraph filling the middle of page 8? Where?

What is the relation between the first sentence and the last in the
paragraph at the bottom of page 11? Give the words that join the
sentences of the paragraph together.

In the paragraph beginning on page 13, what is the purpose of the
first two sentences?

On page 14, does it seem to you that Hawthorne had forgotten the Old
Manse enough so that it could be called a digression? or do you think
that the delightful, rambling character of the essay permits it? Can
you divide this paragraph on pages 14 and 15? Where?

What figure at the bottom of page 15? Is it the custom to use a
capital letter in such a case? Has the paragraph in which the figure
occurs unity? Where could you divide it? Give the topic of both new
paragraphs.

Of the paragraph on pages 16 and 17, what is the relation of the last
three sentences to the topic?

What comment would you make upon the last sentence of the paragraph
ending at the top of page 25?

At the opening of the paragraph beginning on page 29, do you like the
figure? Trace the relation between the first and second sentences;
between the second and the third. Could this paragraph be divided?

RIP VAN WINKLE AND THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW.
(Riverside Literatu