Exercise I. From the following examples yon will get a better idea of the functions of various types of repetition, and also of parallelism and chiasmus: 1. I wake up and I'm alone and I walk round Warley and I'm alone; and I talk with people and I'm alone and I look at his face when I'm home and it's dead, (J.Br.) 2. Babbitt was virtuous. He advocated, though he did not practice, the prohibition of alcohol; he praised, - though he did not obey, the laws against motor-speeding. (S.L.) 3. "To think better of it," returned the gallant Blandois, "would be to slight a lady, to slight a lady would be to be deficient in chivalry towards the sex, and chivalry towards the sex is a part of my character." (D.) 4. Halfway along the righthand side of the dark brown hall was a dark brown door with a dark brown settie beside it. After I had put my hat, my gloves, my muffler and my coat on the settie we three went through the dark brown door into a darkness without any brown in it. (W.G) 5. I might as well face facts; good-bye "Susan, good-bye a big car, good-bye a: big house, good-bye power, good-bye the silly handsome drearns. (J.Br.) 6. I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. (O.W.) 7. I wanted to knock over the table and hit him until my arm had no more strength in it, then give him the boot, give him the boot, give him the boot - I drew a deep breath. (J.Br.) 8. Of her father's being groundlessly suspected, she felt sure. Sure. Sure. (D.) 9. Now he understood. He understood many things. One can be a person first. A man first and then a black man or a white man. (P. A.) 10. She stopped, and seemed to catch the distant sound of knocking. Abandoning the traveller, she hurried towards the parlour; in the passage she assuredly did hear knocking, angry and impatient knocking, the knocking of someone who thinks he has knocked too long. (A.B.) 11. Obviously - this is a streptococcal infection. Obviously. (W.D.) 12. And a great desire for peace, peace of no matter what kind, swept through her. (A.B.) 13. When he blinks, a parrot-like look appears, the look of some heavily blinking tropical bird. (A. M.) 14. And everywhere were people. People going into gates and coming out of gates. People staggering and falling. People fighting and cursing. (P. A.) 15. Then there was something between them. There was. There was. (Dr.) 16. He ran away from the battle. He was an ordinary human being that didn't want to kill or be killed. So he ran away from the battle. (St.H.) 17. Failure meant poverty, poverty meant squalor, squalor led, in the final stages, to the smells and stagnation of B. Inn Alley. (D. du M.) 18. "Secret Love", "Autumn Leaves", and something whose title he missed. Supper music. Music to cook by. (U.) 19. Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. (W.H.D.) 20. I came back, shrinking from my father's money, shrinking from my father's memory: mistrustful of being forced on a mercenary wife, mistrustful of my father's intention in thrusting that marriage on me, mistrustful that I was already growing avaricious, mistrustful that I was slackening in gratitude to the dear noble honest friends who had made the only sunlight in my childish life. (D.) 21. If you know anything that is not known to others, if you have any suspicion, if you have any clue at "all, and any reason for keeping it in your own breast, think of me, and conquer that reason and let it be known! (D.) 22. I notice that father's is a large hand, but never a heavy one when it touches me, and that father's is a rough voice but never an angry one when it speaks to me. 23. From the offers of marriage that fell to her Dona Clara, deliberately, chose the one that required her removal to Spain. So, to Spain she went. (O.W.) 24. There lives at least one being who can never change - one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness - who lives but, in your eyes, - who breathes but, in your smile, - who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you. (D.) 25. It is she, in association with whom, saving that she has been for years a main fibre of the roof of his dignity and pride, he has never had a selfish thought. It is she, whom he has loved, admired, honoured and set up for the world to respect. It is she, who, at the core of all the constrained formalities and conventionalities of his life, has been a stock of living tenderness and love. (D.)