The art of literature stands apart from among its sisters, because the material in which the nterary artist worrs 13 the act u e, tierce, uh utc umc
hand, a strange freshness and immediacy of address to the public mind, which is ready prepared to understand it; but hence, on the other a singular
limitation. the sister arts enjoy the use of a plastic and ductile material, like the modeller's clay literature alone is condemned to work in mosaic with
finite and quite rigid words. you have seen these blocks, dear to the nursery this one a pillar, that a pediment, a third a window or a vase. it is with
blocks of just such arbitrary size and figure that the literary architect is condemned to design the palace of his art. nor is this all; for since
these blocks, or words, are the acknowledged currency of our daily affairs, there are here possible none of those suppressions by which
other arts obtain relief, continuity, and vigour: no hieroglyphic touch, no smoothed impasto, no inscrutable shadow, as in painting; no
blank wall, as in architecture; but every word, phrase, sentence, and paragraph must move in a logical progression, and convey a definite
conventional import
now the first merit which attracts in the pages of a good writer, or the talk of a brilliant conversationalist, is the apt choice and contrast of the words
employed it is indeed a strange art to take these blocks rudely conceived for the purpose of the market or the bar and by tact of application touch
them to the finest meanings and distinctions restore to them their primal energy wittily shift them to another issue or make of them a drum to rouse
the passions but though this form of ment is without doubt the most sensible and seizing, it is far from being equally present in all writers. the effect
of words in shakespeare, their singular justice, significance, and poetic charm, is different indeed, from the effect of words in addison or fielding
in a paragraph of five to eight sentences, identify the author's use of implied indirectly stated) and explicit (directly stated) comparisons using the
example in bold provide at least one example of each from the text and explain their meanings use proper spelling and grammar