Brief text in rhyme and pictures introduce adjectives and their uses.

A little girl pictures the things her parents talk about, such as a king who rained, bear feet, and the foot prince in the snow.

Introduces items that eventually become things that start with each letter of the alphabet, such as O is for acorn, which becomes tomorrow's oak tree.

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Provides definitions, pronunciation, etymology, and notes on usage for more than fifty thousand words, including technical terms

Rhetoric is among the most ancient academic disciplines, and we all use it every day whether expertly or not. This book is a lively set of lessons on the subject. It is about rhetorical figures: practical ways of applying old and powerful principles--repetition and variety, suspense and relief, concealment and surprise, the creation of expectations and then the satisfaction or frustration of them--to the composition of a simple sentence or a complete...