Williams
Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity & Grace,
Study
Questions 16-30
Lessons
6-10 (pp. 118-249)
17. Supply the missing word: "Reading a sentence is like jumping a
_____________"
(p. 119)
18. What term does Williams use for the "climatic part of a sentence"? (p. 123)
19. What term does Williams use for the "key concepts that run through a series of
sentences"? (p. 130)
20. Supply the missing word: "I believe more in _____________ than I do in the
pencil."
(Truman Capote, 139)
21. What term does Williams use for "style's first grace": that of compression? (p. 140)
22. Finish the sentence: "The structure of every sentence is a lesson in
___________."
(John Stuart Mill, p. 165)
23. What term does Williams use for style's second grace: the art of writing long
sentences which "do not slouch"? (p. 166)
24. What kind of modifiers are recommended for writing long sentences? (p.175)
25. What kind of a modifier implies a different subject from the explicit subject of a
sentence? (p. 185)
26. Calvin Coolidge, asked by his wife what the preacher had preached on, replied
"__________." (p. 191)
27. What term does Williams use for the third and final grace of style, that of
"balance and symmetry"? (p. 192)
28. Williams final word on style is this: "___________ is more." (p. 216)
29. Supply the missing word: "Everything should be made as simple as possible,
but not _____________." (Albert Einstein, p. 219)
30. Who does Williams credit as the author of two of the three "most celebrated
prose texts in American history"? (p. 235)