Skin Like Milk, Hair of Silk: What Are Similes and Metaphors?

Every Word Tells a Story

Thumbtacks, Earwax, Lipstick, Dipstick: What Is a Compound Word?

Writer to Writer: From Think to Ink

Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know: What Is a Synonym?

Stop and Go, Yes and No: What Is an Antonym?

A Bat Cannot Bat, a Stair Cannot Stare: More about Homonyms and Homophones

Feet and Puppies, Thieves and Guppies: What Are Irregular Plurals?

Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More about Adverbs

Cool! Whoa! Ah and Oh!: What Is an Interjection?

Madam and Nun and 1001: What Is a Palindrome?

I'm and Won't, They're and Don't: What's a Contraction?

But and For, Yet and Nor: What Is a Conjunction?

Stroll and Walk, Babble and Talk: More about Synonyms

Pre- and Re-, Mis- and Dis-: What Is a Prefix?

Chips and Cheese and Nana's Knees: What Is Alliteration?

-Ful and -Less, -Er and -Ness: What Is a Suffix?

Slide and Slurp, Scratch and Burp: More about Verbs

Under, Over, By the Clover: What Is a Preposition?

A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime: More about Nouns