KEY TO EXAMINATION QUESTIONS IN

PARAPHRASING, ETC.

PARAPHRASING.

Note.-Paraphrasing may be one of three kinds :

(a) It may be literal-that is, different words may be substituted for those in the text, but the form remain unaltered.

(b) It may be free-the form may be changed, but the ideas may be closely followed.

(c) The text may be imitated.

In the examples given, the first and second methods have been followed, separate or combined, according to the nature of the example or the requirements of the question, the first answer especially being an explanation rather than a paraphrase.

1. The lines form part of the morning song of praise which Milton places in the mouth of Adam and Eve in Eden. Filled with adoration themselves, they call upon other created things also to praise their Maker. They have already addressed the sun, moon, stars, and planets, and now turn to the elementsair, earth, fire, and water, the substances supposed by the ancients to be the constituents of all things, speaking of them as the first products of creation, constantly moving, and contributing in their united revolutions to the composition and welfare of every created thing. These they ask to let each of

their never-ending movements offer, in some new form, praise to their Creator.

Elements,

from elementum, a first principle.

Quaternion, from quaterni, four in number: going four

together.

Perpetual, from per, through, and peto, to go: never ceasing. Multiform, from multus, many, and forma: having many

Ceaseless,

Vary,

forms.

from cedo (L.), to give over, and less (AS.), without: without giving up, without stopping. from L. variare, through the F. varier: to change, to alter.

2. Sometimes he would wander by the edge of that forest, which now appears so gay, uttering in low tones his strange thoughts.

At other times he looked dejected, pale, and miserable, as if he were utterly forsaken, and rendered desolate by trouble or through disappointed love.

3. As the year rolls round, the seasons, one by one, succeed each other; but to me there is no change. I am never conscious of the coming of day, of the calm of evening, or the freshness of morning; the beauty of spring's blossoms and of summer's flowers, the sight of flocks of sheep, of herds of cattle, and of the human countenance, are alike unknown to Eternal night surrounds me.

me.

4. I pray that God will banish all this woe. I trust He will, for He best can. I have often seen a misty morning precede a bright and cheerful summer's day; winter, too, is followed by the vernal spring, and men are taught in books that victories are only won after great struggles.

5. No matter how thoroughly miserable a person may be, although he may not know it, there is some other whose thoughts and feelings and desires are similar to his own.

6. Avoid the company of those persons who, when suffering from the effects of their own loose ways, complain of your more correct life. There is no created thing acts irregularly