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A report on a poem, written for a class in literature, might consist of seven
paragraphs:

Facts of composition and publication.
Kind of poem; metrical form.
Subject.
Treatment of subject.
For what chiefly remarkable.
Wherein characteristic of the writer.
Relationship to other works.

The contents of paragraphs C and D would vary with the poem. Usually,
paragraph C would indicate the actual or imagined circumstances of the poem
(the situation), if these call for explanation, and would then state the
subject and outline its development. If the poem is a narrative in the third
person throughout, paragraph C need contain no more than a concise summary of
the action. Paragraph D would indicate the leading ideas and show how they are
made prominent, or would indicate what points in the narrative are chiefly
emphasized.

A novel might be discussed under the heads:

Setting.
Plot.
Characters.
Purpose.

A historical event might be discussed under the heads:

What led up to the event.
Account of the event.
What the event led up to.

In treating either of these last two subjects, the writer would probably find
it necessary to subdivide one or more of the topics here given.

As a rule, single sentences should not be written or printed as paragraphs. An
exception may be made of sentences of transition, indicating the relation
between the parts of an exposition or argument.

In dialogue, each speech, even if only a single word, is a paragraph by
itself; that is, a new paragraph begins with each change of speaker. The
application of this rule, when dialogue and narrative are combined, is best
learned from examples in well-printed works of fiction.

As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity
with the beginning.

Again, the object is to aid the reader. The practice here recommended enables