Interrogative Analysis or intellectual Inquisition is another and most effective mode of inciting the intellect to pass from a passive into an active =assimilating= condition when trying to learn by heart as well as to help create the habit of the intellect staying with the senses. The process consists of two parts: (1) _To not only ask a question on every important word in the sentence to be memorised_, but, (2) _to repeat the entire sentence in reply to each question, while specially emphasising_ that word of the sentence which constitutes the _answer_ to the question. Take the passage from Byron:-- "Man! Thou pendulum 'twixt a smile and tear." 1. _Who_ is a pendulum 'twixt a smile and tear? "_Man!_ thou pendulum 'twixt a smile and tear." 2. What function does man perform 'twixt a smile and tear? "Man! thou _pendulum_ 'twixt a smile and tear." 3. 'Twixt a tear and what else is man said to be a pendulum? "Man! thou pendulum 'twixt a _smile_ and tear." 4. 'Twixt a smile and what else is man said to be a pendulum? "Man! thou pendulum 'twixt a smile _and tear_." 5. By what word is the relation between "pendulum" and "a smile and tear" described? "Man! thou pendulum _'twixt_ a smile and tear." 6. Is the pendulum which man is said to be 'twixt a smile and tear addressed in the first, second, or third person? "Man! _thou_ pendulum 'twixt a smile and tear." The pupils will see that the above method is fundamentally unlike the ordinary question and answer method. In the latter procedure, a question is asked and the answer is given by "yes" or "no," or by the use of one or more words of the sentence. To illustrate: What is "man" called in this passage? Ans. A pendulum. What swings betwixt a smile and tear? Ans. A pendulum, &c., &c. 1. Define Interrogative Analysis. 2. What does it incite the intellect to do? 3. What does the process consist of? What are they? But in my Method the aim is _to repeat as much of the sentence as is possible informing the question and the whole of it in each reply_; and in _question and reply_ the _word_ that _constitutes the point of both_ is to be especially _emphasized_, and in this way _the mind is exercised on each word of the sentence twice_ (once in question and once in answer), and _each word of the sentence is emphasized in reference to the whole of the sentence_. And in all these separate steps it is impossible for the mind to remain in a passive state, but must be _active_ and _absorbing_ throughout, and thereby a most vivid =first impression= is secured, and the remembrance of it assured.