Light ( page 231 ).
Questions.
1. What is light? 2. What are the characteristics of a flame? a blaze? 3. What is a flare? a flash? 4. What is the sense of glare and glow? How do they differ, and to what are they applied? 5. To what do shine and sheen refer? 6. What do glimmer, glitter, and shimmer denote? 7. What is gleam? a glitter? a sparkle? glistening? 8. What is scintillation? in what two senses used? 9. To what are twinkle and twinkling applied? 10. What is illumination? incandescence?
Examples.
From a little spark may burst a mighty ——.
A —— as of another life, my kindling soul received.
It is ——, that enables us to see the differences between things; and it is Christ that gives us ——.
White with the whiteness of the snow,
Pink with faintest rosy ——,
They blossom on their sprays.
Ghastly in the —— of day.
—— in golden coats like images.
So —— a good deed in a naughty world.
There's but the —— of a star
Between a man of peace and war.