NOTE 1.-This question is not for the sake of getting an answer, or of learning anything on the subject, but as an emphatic way of saying that one who enters military service expects to have at least his expenses paid. It is a thing that admits of no question. Who ever heard of its being otherwise? When a question is thus asked, not for the purpose of getting an answer, but as a means of expressing one's opinion more strongly, the figure is called Interrogation.

NOTE 2.-A negative Interrogation affirms. "Am I not an apostle?" means, I am an apostle. On the other hand, an affirmative Interrogation denies. "Who hath believed our report?" means, No one has believed our report.

DIRECTION. Copy the following Interrogations, and after each, write it changed to plain language:

1. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

2. Who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit of the vineyard? Who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

3. Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

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4. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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Is this then worst,

Thus sitting, thus consulting, thus in arms?

DIRECTION. Write a sentence, expressing a very strong and decided opinion about each of the following subjects, but putting your opinion into the form of an Interrogation:

1. A love for home.

2. The sin of lying.

3. The existence of God.

4. The immortality of the soul.
5. The immensity of the universe.

COMPOSITIONS.

DIRECTION. — Make up not less than twenty sentences about each of the following subjects, and mark with italics any Similes, Metaphors, Metonymies, Synecdoches, or Interrogations which you may use:

1. The Suez Canal.

2. The Gulf Stream.

3. The Pacific Railroad.

4. The Atlantic Telegraph.

5. Difference between Spring and Fall.

6. Difference between Summer and Winter.

EXAMPLE."The mountains sing together, the hills rejoice, and clap their hands."

NOTE.- Here it is not meant literally that the mountains sing, that the hills rejoice and clap their hands. These are acts which can be performed by persons only, and not by mountains and hills. When any thing which belongs to living things only is thus attributed to inanimate objects, the figure is called Personification.

DIRECTION.-Copy the following sentences, marking in each the word or words which indicate personification.

1. Nature sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe.

2. The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad. 3. The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

4. When summer reigns, the flowers rejoice.

5. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

DIRECTION. Change the following sentences, introducing a Personification into each:

1. There was a pestilence in the land.

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2. The waters came down over the precipice with overwhelming force.

3. The man has immense wealth.

4. There was a violent storm on the ocean.

5. The locomotive went over the embankment, and sent forth a terrific noise as it fell into the abyss.

DIRECTION. - Make up a sentence about each of the following subjects, and introduce a personification into each sentence:

1. Time.

2. Death.

3. Disease.

4. The sun.

5. The moon.

6. The tide.

DIRECTION.

COMPOSITIONS.

Make up not less than twenty sentences about each of the following subjects, and mark with italics any Similes, Metaphors, or other figures that you may use:

1. Air castles.

2. John Chinaman.

3. The coming man.
4. The long summer days.

5. The long winter nights.

6. The character of the American Indian.

SUBJECTS FOR COMPOSITION.

1. What I intend to do next vacation.

2. What I did last vacation.

3. An hour in Hollywood [or any other cemetery with which the pupil is familiar].

4. Is travelling by railroad, or travelling by steamboat, most agreeable?

5. The pleasures of memory.

6. What I can recollect of the first school that I attended.

7. Some account of the oldest person I ever knew. 8. A description of a snow-storm.

9. Some of the rules of behavior which a young person should observe.

10. Reflections suitable for one's birthday.

11. Reflections suitable for Christmas.

12. Things which are a hindrance to study.

13. Is the country more beautiful in spring, or in autumn?

14. Is the city, or the country, most desirable for a residence?

15. The pleasure of conversation.

16. Uses of the ocean.

17. Uses of the mountains.

18. Thoughts suggested by looking up into the starry heavens.

19. A description of my birthplace.

20. A description of a marriage ceremony which I once witnessed.

21. Recollections of an evening party.

22. The importance of perseverance.

23. My first school-book.

24. The evils of carelessness.

25. A history of my pets.

26. Difference between the two disciples, John and Peter.

27. Difference between Moses and Joshua.

28. Some of the changes that William Penn might notice, were he now to visit Philadelphia.