Answering Students' Questions about Words
Author : Gail E. Tompkins
Publisher : National Council of Teachers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Vocabulary
ISBN : 9780814101872
Author : Gail E. Tompkins
Publisher : National Council of Teachers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Vocabulary
ISBN : 9780814101872
Author : P. H. Reaney
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 3619 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 041505737X
This classic dictionary explains the origins of over 16,000 names in current English use. It will be a source of fascination to everyone with an interest in names and their history.This classic dictionary answers questions such as these and explains the origins of over 16,000 names in current English use. It will be a source of fascination to everyone with an interest in names and their history.
Author : Elyse Sommer
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1578594685
Language "Appealing As Sunlight After a Storm." A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. —Henry David Thoreau Prose consists of ... phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house. —George Orwell Whether it invokes hard work or merely a hen-house, a good simile is like a good picture—it's worth a thousand words. Packed with more than 16,000 imaginative, colorful phrases—from “abandoned as a used Kleenex” to “quiet as an eel swimming in oil”—the Similes Dictionary will help any politician, writer, or lover of language find just the right saying, be it original or banal, verbose or succinct. Your thoughts will never be "as tedious as a twice-told tale" or "dry as the Congressional Record." Choose from elegant turns of phrases “as useful as a Swiss army knife” and “varied as expressions of the human face”. Citing more than 2,000 sources—from the Bible, Socrates, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and H. L. Mencken to popular movies, music, and television shows—the Similes Dictionary covers hundreds of subjects broken into thematic categories that include topics such as virtue, anger, age, ambition, importance, and youth, helping you find the fitting phrase quickly and easily. Perfect for setting the atmosphere, making a point, or helping spin a tale with economy, intelligence, and ingenuity, the vivid comparisons found in this collection will inspire anyone. Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. —William Shakespeare A face like a bucket —Raymond Chandler A man with little learning is like the frog who thinks its puddle a great sea. —Burmese proverb Peace, like charity, begins at home —Franklin Delano Roosevelt You know a dream is like a river ever changing as it flows. —Garth Brooks Fit as a fiddle —John Ray’s Proverbs He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. —Arthur Miller Ring true, like good china. —Sylvia Plath Music yearning like a God in pain —John Keats Busy as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. —Pat Conroy Enduring as mother love —Anonymous
Author : William Harrison Ukers
Publisher :
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 1935
Category : House & Home
ISBN :
Author : Abraham Tucker
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 1831
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Albert Croll Baugh
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 1963
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780133891553
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 1889
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Oratory, Ancient
ISBN :
Author : Margaret M. Bishop
Publisher : Mott Media (MI)
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2006-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780880621403
THE definitive phonics book for teachers. Comprehensive information is given here for every spelling of every sound. For each spelling you find rules which govern it, exceptions to the rules, sample words to use for teaching the sound or spelling, etymological information, and more. Each sound is keyed to the Phonics Made Plain cards and chart. The Appendix also contains an excellent article concerning reading problems of the older student or adult.
Author : Elyse Sommer
Publisher :
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781578591374
Contains 6,500 phrases organized under 500 themes, including aloneness, death, love, and peace.