No matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used every day in our lives. From songs and television shows to conversations and advertisements, we often ...

Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to ...

Jan. 14-20 is Idiom Week, and today we thought we’d have a heart-to-heart about some strange phrases we use. Idioms, metaphors and similes are all types of figurative language. According to ...

From Open Letters Monthly: "Perhaps the simplest way to think about metaphor is as the connection formed when meaning is transferred from one thing to another. This is not the only way to construe ...

This post is part 2 of a series. To see the first entry, click here. In my last post, we discussed how literature can force you to become aware of and understand specific things. We considered how ...

"Metaphor is not for the true poet a figure of speech, but a substituted image that he actually places before his eyes in place of an idea." "Metaphor is originally a figure of speech, and designates ...

There are quite a number of systems in Metaphor: ReFantazio that you have to get to grips with, and there are just a couple of terms that aren’t very well-explained. That’s where we come in. If you’re ...