Word Hoard: The Rhetoric of Poetry

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO NOBILITYThis 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 ContentsUNIT I: Why Study Poetry?Lesson 1: What is Poetry?Lesson 2: What is Bad Poetry?Lesson 3: Your Word HoardUNIT II: Understanding the Poetic ElementsLesson 4: Introduction to the Poetic ElementsLesson 5: How Poetic Elements Elevate ExpressionUNIT III: Rhythm & MeterLesson 6: Exploring Rhythms in PoetryLesson 7: Meter—The Measure of PoetryLesson 8: A Word from Dr. JohnsonLesson 9: RhymeLesson 10: Natural RhythmLesson 11: Real MeterUNIT IV: Alliteration & AssonanceLesson 12: Old English PoetryLesson 13: Middle English PoetryLesson 14: Alliteration & Assonance NowUNIT V: Poetic FormsLesson 15: Free VerseLesson 16: Blank Verse & Terza RimaLesson 17: Poetic Aphorisms, Epigrams & CinquainsLesson 18: SonnetsLesson 19: VillanelleLesson 20a: Shaped PoetryLesson 20b: Jack of All Forms, Master of New OnesUNIT VI: Some Tropes, Some Styles, Some Memeing, No SynecdocheLesson 21: Figures of SpeechLesson 22a: ImageryLesson 22b: Simile & MetaphorLesson 23: Repetition & ParallelsLesson 24: OnomatopoeiaUNIT VII: ComposingLesson 25: What Do I Write?Lesson 26: DeathLesson 27: DelightLesson 28: FoodLesson 29: NatureLesson 30: SportsLesson 31: TransienceUNIT VIII: PerformanceLesson 32: Reading Reified Read more