{"product_id":"word-hoard-the-rhetoric-of-poetry","title":"Word Hoard: The Rhetoric of Poetry","description":"A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO NOBILITY\nThis 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.\nThis 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.\nIntended for upper high school, as well as early college.\n\nTable of Contents\nUNIT I: Why Study Poetry?\nLesson 1: What is Poetry?\nLesson 2: What is Bad Poetry?\nLesson 3: Your Word Hoard\nUNIT II: Understanding the Poetic Elements\nLesson 4: Introduction to the Poetic Elements\nLesson 5: How Poetic Elements Elevate Expression\nUNIT III: Rhythm \u0026amp; Meter\nLesson 6: Exploring Rhythms in Poetry\nLesson 7: Meter—The Measure of Poetry\nLesson 8: A Word from Dr. Johnson\nLesson 9: Rhyme\nLesson 10: Natural Rhythm\nLesson 11: Real Meter\nUNIT IV: Alliteration \u0026amp; Assonance\nLesson 12: Old English Poetry\nLesson 13: Middle English Poetry\nLesson 14: Alliteration \u0026amp; Assonance Now\nUNIT V: Poetic Forms\nLesson 15: Free Verse\nLesson 16: Blank Verse \u0026amp; Terza Rima\nLesson 17: Poetic Aphorisms, Epigrams \u0026amp; Cinquains\nLesson 18: Sonnets\nLesson 19: Villanelle\nLesson 20a: Shaped Poetry\nLesson 20b: Jack of All Forms, Master of New Ones\nUNIT VI: Some Tropes, Some Styles, Some Memeing, No Synecdoche\nLesson 21: Figures of Speech\nLesson 22a: Imagery\nLesson 22b: Simile \u0026amp; Metaphor\nLesson 23: Repetition \u0026amp; Parallels\nLesson 24: Onomatopoeia\nUNIT VII: Composing\nLesson 25: What Do I Write?\nLesson 26: Death\nLesson 27: Delight\nLesson 28: Food\nLesson 29: Nature\nLesson 30: Sports\nLesson 31: Transience\nUNIT VIII: Performance\nLesson 32: Reading Reified\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 196350531X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.196350531X.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Swait, Joffre\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43623955824701,"sku":"BVV.196350531X.VG","price":33.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/196350531X-0.jpg?v=1789421357","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/word-hoard-the-rhetoric-of-poetry","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}