Each is almost like the preceding, yet a little
different; and when we have seen all in succession, we understand each
better, and the whole subject is vividly impressed on our minds.
In the third paragraph we have still another contrast in the description
of little Gluck. This paragraph is shorter, but the same devices are
used that we found in the preceding.
In these three paragraphs the following points are well illustrated:
1. Each paragraph develops one subject, which has a natural relation to
what precedes and what follows;
2. Each idea is presented in a succession of small details which follow
in easy, logical order one after the other;
3. There is constant variety and contrast, difference with likeness and
likeness with difference.
CHAPTER IV.
HUMOR:
Addison, Stevenson, Lamb.
Mere correctness in sentence structure (grammar) may be purely
scientific; but the art of rhetoric is so wrapped up with human emotion
that the study of human nature counts for infinitely more than the
theory of arrangement, figures of speech, etc., Unless the student has
some idea how the human mind works (his own mind and the minds of his
readers), he will make little or no progress in his study of this
subject.
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