123. What is a Letter as a variety
of prose?
A written communication addressed by the
writer to some other
person.
124. What is an Essay?
A written discourse on some special subject.
125. What are Travels?
Records of journeys.
126. What is History?
A record of past events.
127. What is a Discourse?
A performance read or spoken to an audience.
128. Should the voice agree in style
with the different varieties
of
prose?
It should, and the performer should endeavor
to produce the exact
sentiments
of the writer.
129. What is Poetry?
A discourse written in verse and metrical
language.
130. What is a Verse?
A single line of metrical language.
131. Is it correct to use the term
verse in speaking of a
division
of prose?
It is not.
132. What should we call such division?
Paragraph or Division.
133. What is a Stanza?
A number of metrical lines, or verses,
combined according to a
regular
system.
134. How many kinds of metrical language?
Two.
135. What are they?
Rhyme and Blank Verse.
136. What is Rhyme?
That language in which the concluding
syllables of the verses have
a
similarity of sound.
137. How many kinds of Rhyme?
Two.
138. What are they?
Perfect and imperfect.
139. What is a Perfect rhyme?
Where the vowels have the same sound.
140. What is an Imperfect rhyme?
Where the vowels have a different sound.
141. What is Blank Verse?
A kind of metrical language in which there
is no similarity of
sound.
142. What is the Caesura pause?
A rhythmic pause occurring in a verse.
143. How many rules should be observed
in the use of the Caesura?
Three.
144. Give Rule 1.
The pause should be near the middle of
the verse.
145. Give Rule 2.
It should never divide a word.
146. Give Rule 3.
Should not separate words from their modifiers,
as adjectives from
nouns,
adverbs from verbs, etc.
147. Do all verses have the caesura
pause?
They do if over three feet in length.
148. What is meant by a Foot in verse?
A certain portion of a line divided according
to accent.
149. When melody comes in contact with
accent, which should yield?
Accent.
150. Is there any other rhythmic pause
than the Caesura?
There is; the demi-caesura is sometimes
used.