Rhetorical Devices in text and audio

Leah · Member

Rhetorical Devices in text and audio

Date: Nov 10, 2006

Hi Leah,

Thank you, thank you for this link. As I work through LTW, I keep thinking that a glossary of terms with models would be a perfect addition to the curriculum. I come to classical writing with no understanding of classical writing or classical education for that matter. I need definitions and models to be an effective teacher. This link will add to the support materials I am collecting.

I haven't fully implemented LTW into our homeschool, but our 16yo worked through the elocution exercises on nouns and verbs and added that information to his editing checklist. Just those concepts have given his writing better clarity.

Bonita

Camille · Member

Hi Bonita!

The Instruction Manual does have a glossary, but your idea of listing some examples with the terms is a good idea!

Glad the elocution exercises are helpful. You're right, they can improve writing that started anywhere!

Camille

Date: Nov 10, 2006

Hi Camille,

I must have missed the glossary in the binder I received. Duh! I'm really overwhelmed this year trying to learn new material as well as driving our oldest son to a local university for classes and homeschooling on the 4th floor of the university library. I can't wait until Christmas break when I can get lessons planned, etc.

Bonita

P.S. You referred to an instruction manual. Is that the white binder divided into sections for invention, arrangement and elocution?

Bonita · Member

Oh Camille,

I do feel foolish now that I see there is glossory in the curriculum.

Bonita

akern · Veteran Member

Please don't waste any of your precious emotions on feeling foolish; we all have made oversights 1000 worse!

And thank you for the suggestions. We hope to add lots and lots of models in the coming days and months. In fact, that's one thing we hope this forum will help us with. Nobody should ever be shy about sending us examples - of anything.

Thanks to Leah for noting that web site. Looks good!

Blessings on your writing!

Andrew

Date: Nov 15, 2006

Thank you, Andrew, for the encouragement.

Now that I am beginning to get a glimmer of what classical writing is about and why it is so effective, I am looking at pieces of writing for their classical components. As I mentioned in a previous post, we travel to a local university each day for our oldest son to take college classes. To keep that time enjoyable, we listen to books on tape. I want to suggest our last book-on-CD, The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman, for its overall wit and cleverness, but especially for the last scenes which offer an humorous example of definition. It's a courtroom scene with two attorneys arguing about whether the scarecrow as he now exists meets the criteria needed to give him legal ownership of a valley.

These days, our children, my writing guinea pigs for the last, four years, just smile and nod their heads as I stop the CD player and launch into explanations of why this or that is a perfect illustration of an exordium, definition, narrative, etc.

Bonita