Skills of literary appreciation and their relationship to rhetorical concepts among secondary school students

Abstract

The aim of the current research is to identify the relationship between Literary Appreciation Skills and rhetorical concepts among high school students. The experimental approach was followed using a one-group semi-experimental design, and the research group consisted of (30) male and female students in the first secondary class at Al-Atmaniya Joint Secondary School affiliated to the Badari Educational Administration in Assiut Governorate. To achieve the goal of the research, a set of tools has been prepared, namely: List of literary taste skills appropriate for first-year secondary students and their number reached (20) performance skills, and other rhetorical concepts necessary for first-year secondary students included two main concepts and (14) sub-concepts, as well as preparing a Measurement tools: Test literary appreciation skills and rhetorical concepts for first-year high school students. By applying these tools, the research found a correlation between rhetorical concepts and literary appreciation. And that is through the results of the students’average averages (the research group) for both literary taste skills and rhetorical concepts, where a significant convergence was observed between the averages of literary taste skills and rhetorical concepts, and that students whose mean averages in rhetorical concepts had high results in testing literary taste skills, and vice versa. The research in accordance with these findings has made a series of recommendations and proposals.