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Why Do We Say That!
What Was a Cliché Before It Became One?
An engaging way to introduce young readers to parts of speech, particularly idioms and cliches. Explains the differences, and how best to use and not use said parts of speech. Fulfills Common Core standard for literature.
32 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2017
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Emma Carlson Berne
345 books145 followersEmma Carlson Berne is the author of the YA thrillers STILL WATERS and NEVER LET YOU GO (coming Fall 2012 from Simon & Schuster). She has also written the thrillers FIGMENT and CHOKER under the pen name Elizabeth Woods. She lives and writes in Cincinnati. Learn more about Emma and contact her directly at her website, www.emmacarlsonberne.com. Or check out Emma Carlson Berne Books on http://www.facebook.com/EmmaCarlsonBe... or follow her on Twitter.
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October 2, 2018
Wow, this is a recent guide about avoiding common stuff you say that you might not even notice having crept into your writing! I say it's brand new because the library has written in the inside cover that it put this book into its catalog December of 2017, i.e. at the end of last year.
For this reason, its brightly colored pages, especially towards the end, have a lot of stuff about modern morphology of the English and French languages. In a more child-oriented format...
It encourages you to try and think your way out of some common clichés at several points throughout, as well as defining several words, I don't know, it deems might be on the SAT list or something, such as succumb (which is to fail to resist pressure of some sort according to the definition provided, but according to Random House has two definitions: to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair. or
to yield to disease, wounds, old age, etc.; die.
So I think the book could get a little on the confusing side with "oh, succumb means not resisting a pressure of some sort..." but maybe it just doesn't want to be depressing. Good job, Emma-san and Robert-san, the consultant!
With the etymology of succumb being 1480–90; < Latin succumbere, equivalent to suc- suc- + -cumbere, transitive derivative of cubāre to lie, recline; cf. incumbent :D (cf. stands for conferatur) or static, which is a whole different story.
At the end of the book, it reiterates all the words it introduced throughout the 32-page FactFinders(R) book in a glossary in case you missed them, and I think it gives you its bibliography as a Read More section, but I am not in communication with the people who created the book, so I am not sure.
I read this book because I wanted, in particular, to assure myself my own writing has no clichés. My writing difficulty at this point I believe tends to be paranoia hence underachievement, or something along those lines.
So I hope you have a nice day!
For this reason, its brightly colored pages, especially towards the end, have a lot of stuff about modern morphology of the English and French languages. In a more child-oriented format...
It encourages you to try and think your way out of some common clichés at several points throughout, as well as defining several words, I don't know, it deems might be on the SAT list or something, such as succumb (which is to fail to resist pressure of some sort according to the definition provided, but according to Random House has two definitions: to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair. or
to yield to disease, wounds, old age, etc.; die.
So I think the book could get a little on the confusing side with "oh, succumb means not resisting a pressure of some sort..." but maybe it just doesn't want to be depressing. Good job, Emma-san and Robert-san, the consultant!
With the etymology of succumb being 1480–90; < Latin succumbere, equivalent to suc- suc- + -cumbere, transitive derivative of cubāre to lie, recline; cf. incumbent :D (cf. stands for conferatur) or static, which is a whole different story.
At the end of the book, it reiterates all the words it introduced throughout the 32-page FactFinders(R) book in a glossary in case you missed them, and I think it gives you its bibliography as a Read More section, but I am not in communication with the people who created the book, so I am not sure.
I read this book because I wanted, in particular, to assure myself my own writing has no clichés. My writing difficulty at this point I believe tends to be paranoia hence underachievement, or something along those lines.
So I hope you have a nice day!
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