Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection. 2. Explain, as clearly and simply as possible, the central thought in the following poem : King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Tax not the royal saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the architect who planned, Of white-robed scholars only; this immense And glorious work of fine intelligence! Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof VII. 1. Explain the following terms: solecism, mixed metaphor, apostrophe, euphemism, barbarism, anapaestic, assonance. 2. Define accurately and illustrate the following: synecdoche, personification, metaphor, simile, blank verse, caesura, climax, alliteration. 3. Define accurately six of the following terms, and add illustrations provincialism, pleonasm, inversion, bombast, mixed metaphor, antithesis, Alexandrine, ballad stanza. INDEX absolute construction, 13 abstruseness, 275 accent, metrical, 291, 294 adjective, comparison, 1; comparative adverb, comparison, 1; or adjective, allusions, 53, 72, 273 and which, and who, 8 Andrew of Wyntoun, 315 animation, 276 anticipation, 93 anticlimax, 91 antithesis, 86, 115 Ascham, 233 assonance, 296 Austen, Miss, 50, 318 Bacon, 154, 178, 193, 231, 273 sq. Beaconsfield, 257 Beattie, 299 Berners, 235 Bible (A. V.), 32, 83, 90, 101 sqq., 159, 231, 276, 278 biography, 319 Blackmore, 310 blank verse, 297 Borrow, 33, 167, 174 brevity, 48, 51, 272 Brontë, Miss, 38, 318 Browne, Sir Thomas, 273; William, Browning, Mrs E. B., 301; Robert, De Quincey, 39, 49, 101, 154, 165, decasyllabic, 292, 297 Defoe, 167, 271, 273, 276, 318 description, 160 descriptive poetry, 316 dialectic words, 32 Dickens, 38, 176, 275, 318 didactic poetry, 315 diffuseness, 50, 73, 271 digression, 124 dimeter, 292 directness, 53 drama, 310, 313 sq., 318 Dryden, 131, 154, 217, 276, 278, Dyer, 315 Edgeworth, Miss, 33 Eliot, George, 318 enjambement, 294 epanaphora, 92 essay, definition, 154; choice of sub- exclamation (figure), 89: (punctua- tion), 138 Hall, 319 Hardyng, 315 Havelok the Dane, 311 Hazlitt, 154, 319 hexameter, 292, 298 hyperbole, 87 iambus, 292, 297 sq., 301 ilk, 38 |