Word Hoard: The Rhetoric of Poetry - Couverture souple

Swait, Joffre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 196350531X ISBN 13 : 9781963505313

Editeur : Roman Roads Press, 2026

Synopsis

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Roman Roads Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 196350531X
• ISBN 13: 9781963505313
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 262
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg