Articles tagged Trope

Devices of Style - Part III: Tropes

by Ruth
Wednesday, 25 March, 2015
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 25 March, 2015
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”—Francis Bacon
Devices of style make our writing come alive! Figures of speech, also called devices of style, are “a form of...

Devices of Style - Part II: Schemes, a Closer Look

by Ruth
Wednesday, 25 February, 2015
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 25 February, 2015
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”-- Louis Nizer1
As much fun as some of us have with the Greek words for these devices...

Devices of Style - Part I: Introduction

by Ruth
Friday, 23 January, 2015
categories: Articles, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Friday, 23 January, 2015
categories: Articles, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
“He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.”- John F. Kennedy, speaking of Winston Churchill
Winter’s long dark evenings invite us to curl up with a thick novel. This winter as I amble through Lorna Doone, a story slow in action, but rich in language, I...