Word Hoard: The Rhetoric of Poetry

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO NOBILITY This book is a practical guide to nobility through understanding and wielding the English language in its most elevated forms. It is an exercise book on truth, beauty, and goodness as spoken. This book will help grow your skill and confidence in poetry, your aesthetic sensibility, and your rhetorical performance. As you will soon learn, our words are our greatest treasures, our finest tools, and our most dangerous weapons. As speakers of the good word, the good-spell, the gospel, we will not allow the destroyers and robots to hold the field. Intended for upper high school, as well as early college. Table of Contents UNIT I: Why Study Poetry? Lesson 1: What is Poetry? Lesson 2: What is Bad Poetry? Lesson 3: Your Word Hoard UNIT II: Understanding the Poetic Elements Lesson 4: Introduction to the Poetic Elements Lesson 5: How Poetic Elements Elevate Expression UNIT III: Rhythm & Meter Lesson 6: Exploring Rhythms in Poetry Lesson 7: Meter—The Measure of Poetry Lesson 8: A Word from Dr. Johnson Lesson 9: Rhyme Lesson 10: Natural Rhythm Lesson 11: Real Meter UNIT IV: Alliteration & Assonance Lesson 12: Old English Poetry Lesson 13: Middle English Poetry Lesson 14: Alliteration & Assonance Now UNIT V: Poetic Forms Lesson 15: Free Verse Lesson 16: Blank Verse & Terza Rima Lesson 17: Poetic Aphorisms, Epigrams & Cinquains Lesson 18: Sonnets Lesson 19: Villanelle Lesson 20a: Shaped Poetry Lesson 20b: Jack of All Forms, Master of New Ones UNIT VI: Some Tropes, Some Styles, Some Memeing, No Synecdoche Lesson 21: Figures of Speech Lesson 22a: Imagery Lesson 22b: Simile & Metaphor Lesson 23: Repetition & Parallels Lesson 24: Onomatopoeia UNIT VII: Composing Lesson 25: What Do I Write? Lesson 26: Death Lesson 27: Delight Lesson 28: Food Lesson 29: Nature Lesson 30: Sports Lesson 31: Transience UNIT VIII: Performance Lesson 32: Reading Reified
ASIN: 196350531X
VSKU: BVV.196350531X.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Swait, Joffre
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