Vision device.

Fundamental Device.—VisioN. We - have found that dialogue may .be used in both description and narration ; and so also may vision. In description, vision is used in portraying some¬what elaborately scenes, people, etc., in our past experiences. Compare its use here with that in narration. A.	MODEL.

Situ- As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone atzon And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known, So I turn the leaves of fancy till, in shadowy design, I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine. The lamplight seems to glimmer with a flicker of surprise, As I turn it low to rest me of the dazzle in my eyes, And light my pipe in silence, save a sigh that seems to yoke Its fate with my tobacco and to vanish with the smoke. Descrip- A face of lily beauty, with a form of airy grace, tion	Floats out of my tobacco as the genii from the vase ; And I thrill beneath the glances of a pair of azure eyes As glowing as the summer and as tender as the skies. I can see the pink sunbonnet and the little •	checkered dress She wore when first I kissed her and she answered the caress With the written declaration that, "as surely as the vine Grew round the stump," she loved me— that old sweetheart of mine.

-JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, An Old Sweetheart.

SUGGESTIONS-What description-motive is used in this model? What is the fundamental quality of the picture here given? How is the fundamental device carried out? Find the four w's in the situation. Minor devices used. comparisons ; a direct quotation.

B.	EXAMPLE FOR ANALYSIS.

His old head has dropped on his breast, and he is dreaming. Pictures are passing before his eyes quickly, and a little disorderly. He does not see the house in which he was born, for war had destroyed it ;. . . . but still the village was as if he had left it yesterday,— the line of cottages with lights in the windows, the mound, the mill, and the two ponds opposite each other and thundering all night with a chorus of frogs. . . . The night is calm and cool,—in truth, a Polish night ! In the distance the pine-wood is sounding without wind, like the roll of the sea Oh, the one land, the one land !