An alphabetical listing of common figures of speech, along with their definitions and origins. Cat got your tongue? Penny for your thoughts? Come again? Every day, idioms bring color to our speech. Since they don't really mean what they say, idioms can stump even the native English-speaker. Marvin Terban makes understanding idioms "as easy as pie" with the revised Scholastic Dictionary Of Idioms. Explanations for, and origins of, more than 700 everyday...

A collection of original riddles, each using a homonym as the answer : bizarre-bazaar, knight-night, and similar pairs of words.

Explains the purpose and importance of punctuation and how it is used, covering apostrophes, colons, commas, exclamation points, hyphens, parentheses, slashes, and more.

Traces the origins of more than 100 eponymous words--words derived from the names of people or places.

In humorous, alliterative, rhyming couplets, the present and past tenses of thirty irregular verbs are presented.

"A practical guide to grammar and usage, covering such topics as parts of speech, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and idioms." --

A collection of riddles based on homonyms, arranged according toconstruction and level of difficulty.

A collection of over seventy riddles using homographs, words that are spelled the same but differ in meaning and pronunciation.