9. Invent two analogies for the same subject (question 6).
10. Make a short speech based on one of the following: (a) wages and salary; (b) master and man; (c) war and peace; (d) home and the boarding house; (e) struggle and victory; (f) ignorance and ambition.
11. Make a ten-minute speech on any of the topics named in question 6, using all the methods of exposition already named.
12. Explain what is meant by discarding topics collateral and subordinate to a subject.
13. Rewrite the jury-speech on page 224.
14. Define correlation.
15. Write an example of "classification," on any political, social, economic, or moral issue of the day.
16. Make a brief analytical statement of Henry W. Grady's "The Race Problem," page 36.
17. By what analytical principle did you proceed? (See page 225.)
18. Write a short, carefully generalized speech from a large amount of data on one of the following subjects: (a) The servant girl problem; (b) cats; (c) the baseball craze; (d) reform administrations; (e) sewing societies; (f) coeducation; (g) the traveling salesman.
19. Observe this passage from Newton's "Effective Speaking:"
"That man is a cynic. He sees goodness nowhere. He sneers at virtue, sneers at love; to him the maiden plighting her troth is an artful schemer, and he sees even in the mother's kiss nothing but an empty conventionality."
Write, commit and deliver two similar passages based on your choice from this list: (a) "the egotist;" (b) "the sensualist;" (c) "the hypocrite;" (d) "the timid man;" (e) "the joker;" (f) "the flirt;" (g) "the ungrateful woman;" (h) "the mournful man." In both cases use the principle of "Reference to Experience."
20. Write a passage on any of the foregoing characters in imitation of the style of Shakespeare's characterization of Sir John Falstaff, page 227.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 12: Argumentation will be outlined fully in subsequent chapter.]
[Footnote 13: The Working Principles of Rhetoric, J.F. Genung.]
[Footnote 14: How to Attract and Hold an Audience, J. Berg Esenwein.]
[Footnote 15: On the various types of definition see any college manual of Rhetoric.]
[Footnote 16: Quoted in The Working Principles of Rhetoric, J.F. Genung.]
[Footnote 16A: Quoted in The Working Principles of Rhetoric, J.F. Genung.]
[Footnote 17: G.C.V. Holmes, quoted in Specimens of Exposition, H. Lamont.]
[Footnote 18: Effective Speaking, Arthur Edward Phillips. This work covers the preparation of public speech in a very helpful way.]
INFLUENCING BY DESCRIPTION
The groves of Eden vanish'd now so long, Live in description, and look green in song.
--ALEXANDER POPE, Windsor Forest.
The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that always a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought.... This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation.
--RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Nature.
