4. _Paragraphs._ (a) Can you find any violations of paragraph unity? (b) Observe that the following particulars are mentioned in Par. 1: location, material, shape, color, size. Is the same plan used in describing each room? In order to determine this, make a list of the items that are mentioned in explaining the construction of each. 5. _Transition._ Point out all of the transition words in the model. 6. _Figures of Speech._ Find a metaphor and an antithesis in the model. IV. Model II The _Arizona_ is the latest and greatest addition to the battle fleet of the United States. Her displacement is 31,400 tons, her length over all 600 feet, her maximum breadth 97 feet, and her draft under normal conditions 28 feet, 10 inches. Parsons's turbines of 29,000 horse-power give her a speed of 21 knots. Her fuel supply is 2322 tons of oil. She carries a crew of 1000 men. Her cost was $16,000,000. Her armament consists of twelve fourteen-inch and twenty-two five-inch guns, four three-pounders for the launches, two three-inch guns for salutes, and four twenty-two-inch torpedo tubes. The big guns are mounted in four turrets, two forward and two aft, each containing three guns. The turrets nearer to the middle of the ship are enough higher than the forward and aft turrets to permit their guns to be fired directly ahead and astern respectively. This arrangement permits the concentration of six guns forward, six aft, and twelve on either broadside. This vessel is probably armored more heavily than any other warship afloat. Her main belt is sixteen inches thick, while the _Iron Duke_, one of the latest British dreadnoughts, carries only twelve inches. V. Notes and Queries 1. Observe the structure: Par. 1. General Description. Par. 2. Statistics. Par. 3. Offensive Power. Par. 4. Defensive Arrangements. 2. Could the same structure be used for the description of a freight boat, a passenger steamer, a ferryboat, a schooner, a sloop, a brig, a brigantine, a tugboat, a launch, a locomotive, a railway carriage, an airship, or an automobile? 3. What changes, if any, would you suggest? 4. Explain the terms "displacement," "draft," "normal," "knots," "pounds," "turrets." 5. Explain the metaphor in "belt." Is it a good one? VI. Gathering Material Do not get your material from reading; get it from observation. Don't steal it; earn it. Catch your fish; don't buy a string of dead ones at the fish-market, and then lie about the way you obtained them. Few of us can be original, but we can all be honest and industrious. VII. Organization