Download or read book Words to Rhyme with written by Willard R. Espy and published by Checkmark Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-use dictionary of over 80,000 rhyming words.
Download or read book Have a Word on Me written by Willard R. Espy and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1981 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poet s Manual and Rhyming Dictionary written by Frances Stillman and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A useful aid for all committed and aspiring poets. A good rhyming dictionary is an essential tool for all writers of verse. This volume is compactly arranged to allow writers to find the rhymes they need quickly and easily.
Download or read book Say it My Way written by Willard R. Espy and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Garden of Eloquence written by Willard R. Espy and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. Jourdain, a character in a Moliere play, was amazed when told he had been speaking prose all his life. Willard Espy, who has been compared to Lewis Carroll for his light-hearted and fanciful treatment of words, points out that every day we use rhetoric just as unknowingly. In this latest book, Mr. Espy has created a preposterous wonderland, a garden such as never was; and in the words of Henry Peacham (who published the first Garden of Eloquence in 1577), he has "set therein such figurative Flowers, both of Grammar and Rhetoric, as do yield the sweet savor of Eloquence." Besides its flowers, Espy's Garden is inhabited by creatures large and small, lovable and quarrelsome, beautiful and ugly, each incarnating some figure of speech (or trope)-that magical device that extends the range of language to infinity. We are all familiar with such common tropes as metaphor, hyperbole, and alliteration, but did you know that when the minister says "let us gather together" he is employing pleonasmus? Or that "it was no small task" is an example of litotes? Was Eliza Doolittle aware, when she said she wanted to sit "absobloominlutely still," that she was teaching Henry Higgins about tmesis? Metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, pleonasmus, litotes, tmesis-these are but a sprinkling of the unforgettable Garden folk. Espy explains more than 200 rhetorical devices, dozens of them in verses sung by the tropes themselves. Each verse is followed by a definition, a comment, and examples of the usage in history, literature, and everyday speech. Thirty of the figures come visually alive in Teresa Allen's charming and witty illustrations, and word games abound throughout the book.
Download or read book 12 000 Words written by Merriam-Webster, Inc. Staff and published by Springfield, Mass. : Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English language 12,000 words.
Download or read book Mrs Byrne s Dictionary of Unusual Obscure and Preposterous Words written by Josefa Heifetz and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Game of Words written by Willard Espy and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2003-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention language lovers: prepare to be taken prisoner. Willard R. Espy, word gamester extraordinaire, has put together more than 200 sublimely satisfying diversions -- including acrostics, clerihews, epigrams, cryptograms, spoonerisms, palindromes, puns, and much, much more. Presented here are the wildest array of tongue twisters, brainteasers, and other mind-benders new and old, along with notes on their histories, tips on how to play them or solve them, and page after page of mind-boggling challenges you won't find anywhere else. It is a celebration of the energy, wit, flexibility, and fun of the English language by its most ardent aficionado.
Download or read book Another Almanac of Words at Play written by Willard R. Espy and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poplollies and Bellibones written by Susan Kelz Sperling and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oysterville written by Willard R. Espy and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oysterville is the magnificently told tale of four families who settled up and down the East Coast of America three centuries ago and subsequently migrated west, eventually arriving at the tiny settlement of Oysterville on the Pacific coast in the territory of Washington. Drawing on conversations with elderly relations and friends, on historic letters and documents, Willard Espy affectionately reconstructs his own personal past to give us a rich and revealing account of these families that were born, grew up, and died as the United States itself was being shaped and formed, explored and expanded.
