Word Hoard: The Rhetoric of Poetry

12th grade + College


A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO NOBILITY

Building on Fitting Words Classical Rhetoric and Grammar of Poetry, Word Hoard instructing students on the rhetoric and use of poetry.

This book is a practical guide to nobility, as spoken by your forefathers, through understanding and wielding the English language in its most elevated forms. It is an exercise book on truth, beauty, and goodness as spoken.

Word Hoard is constructed to be the capstone to your rhetorical training (high school), or as a portal to your adult life as a word-wielder (early college).

Word Hoard Curriculum Components

Table of Contents of the Word Hoard textbook

Contents
Introductionix
Thanksxiii
Unit I: Why Study Poetry?1
Lesson 1: What is Poetry?3
Lesson 2: What is Bad Poetry?9
Lesson 3: Your Word Hoard17
Unit II: Understanding the Poetic Elements25
Lesson 4: Introduction to the Poetic Elements27
Lesson 5: How Poetic Elements Elevate Expression35
Unit III: Rhythm & Meter41
Lesson 6: Exploring Rhythms in Poetry43
Lesson 7: Meter—The Measure of Poetry49
Lesson 8: A Word from Dr. Johnson53
Lesson 9: Rhyme59
Lesson 10: Natural Rhythm65
Lesson 11: Real Meter75
Unit IV: Alliteration & Assonance83
Lesson 12: Old English Poetry85
Lesson 13: Middle English Poetry93
Lesson 14: Alliteration & Assonance Now99
Unit V: Poetic Forms105
Lesson 15: Free Verse107
Lesson 16: Blank Verse & Terza Rima113
Lesson 17: Poetic Aphorisms, Epigrams & Cinquains121
Lesson 18: Sonnets129
Lesson 19: Villanelle139
Lesson 20a: Shaped Poetry147
Lesson 20b: Jack of All Forms, Master of New Ones153
Unit VI: Some Tropes, Some Styles, Some Memeing, No Synecdoche157
Lesson 21: Figures of Speech159
Lesson 22a: Imagery165
Lesson 22b: Simile & Metaphor173
Lesson 23: Repetition & Parallels179
Lesson 24: Onomatopoeia193
Unit VII: Composing199
Lesson 25: What Do I Write?201
Lesson 26: Death207
Lesson 27: Delight211
Lesson 28: Food215
Lesson 29: Nature219
Lesson 30: Sports221
Lesson 31: Transience227
Unit VIII: Performance231
Lesson 32: Reading Reified233