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 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,...