Word Play
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Word Play: What Happens When People Talk
By Peter FarbAbrahams (1972), Maranda (1971), and Georges and Dundes (1963) present excellent analyses of the riddle form. Social aspects of the riddle are examined by Roberts and Forman (1972) and Blacking (1960). My discussion is indebted to all ...
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Word Play
By Susan Ohanian, Greta BuchartPresents English-language idioms and expressions to children through a series of activities.
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Word Play: Fun Games for Building Reading and Writing Skills in Children with Learning Differences
By Lora Myers, Lori GoodmanWest , Thomas G. In the Mind's Eye : Visual Thinkers , Gifted People with Dyslexia and Other Learning Difficulties , Computer Images and the Ironies of Creativity . Prometheus Books , 1997 Websites If you type the keywords children with ...
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Word Play: Building Vocabulary Across Texts and Disciplines, Grades 6-12
By Sandra WhitakerI could have done a much better job of empowering my students with language had I had this book as a young teacher. - Carol Ann Tomlinson Author...
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Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children’s Literature
By Ainsley Morse“I Am a Phenomenon Quite out of the Ordinary”: The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Daniil Kharms. Translated and edited by Anthony Anemone and Peter Scotto. Boston: Academic Studies Press. Khlebnikov, Velimir (Viktor). 1928.
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Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language
By Gyles Brandreth'No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.' Only words can do that. Words are magic. Words are fun....
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Word Play
By Amy Jackson, Amalie SilverStruggling to make ends meet as a mystery writer, he sold his soul - and his pride - as he pedaled sex and lust writing under the pen name Christoph Strong. No one knew he was the one behind the steamy stories on the bestsellers lists.
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Word Play: A New Approach for Understanding
By Vivian Lee Snodgrassa hard word play to understand. A manuscript is a book a man, such as you, has scripted. It is a man you script. This manuscript was written by a woman. Should not mine be more appropriately called a womanuscript? Fine!
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Word Play: On the Road and Home Again
By Jerry RoseThe nineteenthcentury sociologist Georg Simmel defined (in the German language) the play forms that he found so vital ... But I submit that wordplay productions of Ogden Nash, Dr. Seuss, or A. A. Milne are as vital to the literature of ...
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Word Play
By Hans HolzerAn alternative dictionary reveals the more logical definitions of such terms as self-abasement, mohair, and sexennial
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Word Play: What Happens When People Talk
By Peter FarbWhy do certain words make us blush or wince?