Description of a Conversation, Oration, Book, etc

MoTivE VI. Unity of effect is secured in each of the three models which follow in this section, by assigning a fundamental quality to the object described.

A. DESCRIPTION OF A SERMON.

MODEL

The sermon was a noisy and rather inconsequential effort. The preacher had little to say, but he roared that little out in a harsh, unmusical voice, accompanied by much slapping of his hands and pounding of the table. Towards the end he lowered his voice and began to play upon the feelings of his willing hearers, and when he had won his meed of sobs and tears, when he had sufficiently probed old wounds and made them bleed afresh, when he had conjured up dead sorrows from the grave, when he had obscured the sun of heavenly hope with the vapors of earthly grief, he sat dawn, sat¬isfied.

- PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, The Uncalled.

ANALYSIS OF THE MODEL

1.	The paragraph structure is the same as in Motive I.

2.	The material used to develop the fundamental quality: The manner of the speaker. His style of speech. The effect on his listeners. His subject-matter.

What is the fundamental quality? In what sentence is the manner of the speaker described ? His style

3: Devices used in the handling of material :

Three metaphors. Find them.

B. DESCRIPTION OF A CONVERSATION.

MODEL

There is no entertainment so full of quiet pleasure as the hearing a lady of cultivation and refinement relate her day's experience in her daily rounds of calls, chari¬table visits, shopping, errands of relief and condolence. The evening budget is better than the finance minister's.. •, I don't mean gossip, by any means, or scandal. A woman of culture skims over that like a bird, never interest, but because his heart is too full to be silent. He speaks it with such melody and modulation as he can ; "in homely rustic jingle ' ; but it is his own, and genuine. This is the grand secret for finding readers and retaining them: let him who would move and con¬vince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

— THOMAS CARLYLE, Essay on Burns. ANALYSIS OF THE MODEL

x. The paragrafih structure is the same as in Motive I. 2.	The material used is: the author's subject-matter in gen¬eral; the spirit of his writings ; his style 3.	Devices used in handling of material: Three metaphors.