_c_ Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. --_Il Penseroso_. _d_ Alas, what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? --_Lycidas_. C--Rhetoric 1 Explain and illustrate the principle of _coherence_, (_a_) in the sentence, (_b_) in the paragraph. 2 Define and illustrate simple, complex, and compound sentences. Write a brief account of a happening of yesterday; first write it in simple sentences only, then rewrite it in complex and compound sentences. 3 Comment on the use of the _italicized words_ in the following sentences: The _quick_ fishes _steered_ to and fro about the body. How terrible, in "The Ancient Mariner," are the dead _throats_ singing _spectral_ carols! Stars are my _candles_, and the wind my _friend_. (Autumn, 1907) _State:_ 1 At what school you studied English. 2 Under whose instruction. 3 For how long. 4 The text-books used. A--Composition and Rhetoric 1 Write, first making an outline, on _two_ of the following topics: _a_ Was Portia a lovable character--a girl who would make a good wife? _b_ The story of Lancelot and Elaine. _c_ Johnson and Goldsmith. _d_ Macaulay's ideas of the Puritans and of King Charles I. _e_ High-school fraternities. _f_ The town I like best. 2 Explain the principle of _coherence_, and show how, from sentence to sentence, you have made the coherence plain in your two foregoing compositions. 3 Define and give synonyms for the following words: _passive_, _taunt_, _sanguine_, _affect_, _fix_, _stingy_. Be equally careful about the truth and the form of your definitions. 4 Give, in a sentence of 30 words or more, three examples of parallel constructions. B--Literature 1 Who wrote: _The Faerie Queene_, _Rasselas_, _Treasure land_, _Vanity Fair_, _Tintern Abbey_, _Love's Labor's Lost_, _Robinson Crusoe_, _Locksley Hall_? 2 What becomes of _Fleance_? of _Rebecca, the Jewess_? of _Cassius_? of _Gareth_? of _Godfrey Cass_? What was the result of Burke's speech on Conciliation? 3 Locate and explain the following passages: _a_ Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears. _b_ Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. _c_ He were no lion, were not Romans hinds. _d_ I am a soldier, I, Older in practice, abler than yourself To make conditions. _e_ The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath. BROWN UNIVERSITY (1905) I _Answer all the questions:_ 1 Correct any errors in the following sentences. Give reasons for the changes you make.