nd national
hatred--this is war.

Exercise:

1. I am happy when the spring comes, when the sun is warm, when
the fields revive.

2. He cares nothing for culture, for justice, for progress.

3. As the boat gathered speed, the golden sun was setting far
across the harbor.

4. He amassed a great fortune, standing there behind his dingy
counter, discounting bills, pinching coins, buying cheap and
selling dear.

5. The shattered aqueducts, pier beyond pier, melt into the
darkness, from the plains to the mountains.

=Order of Climax=

=44. In a series of words, phrases, or clauses of noticeable difference
in strength, use the order of climax.=

Wrong order: He was insolent and lazy.

Weak ending: Literature has expanded into a sea, where before
it was only a small stream.

Weak ending: As we listened to his story we felt the sordid
misery and the peril and fear of war.

Emphatic: He was lazy and insolent.

Emphatic: The stream of literature has swollen into a torrent,
expanded into a sea.

Emphatic: As we listened to his story we felt the fear, the
peril, the sordid misery of war.

Exercise:

1. We boarded the train, after having bought our tickets and
checked our baggage.

2. War brings famine, death, disease after it.

3. They have broken up our homes, enslaved our children, and
stolen our property.

4. In the old story, the drunken man, carried into the duke's
palace, sees himself surrounded with luxury, and imagines
himself a true prince, after waking up.

5. The becalmed mariners were famished, hungry.

=The Balanced Sentence=

=45. Two ideas similar or opposite in thought gain in emphasis when set
off, one against the other, in similar constructions.=

Weak and straggling: This paper, like many others, has many bad
features, but in some ways it is very good. The news articles
are far better than the editorials, which are feeble.

Balanced structure: This paper is in some respects good; in
other respects very poor. The news articles are impressive, the
editorials are feeble.

Weak and complicated: From the East a man who lives in the West
can learn a great deal, and an Easterner ought to be able to
understand the West.

Balanced: A Westerner can learn much from the East, and