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 ...

Like similes, metaphors are a form of comparison. While similes use “as” or “like” to make comparisons, a metaphor is when you say that something is something else. She’s a night owl. The bus driver ...

Cristopher Hollingsworth has brought new meaning to “buzz” about books. His Poetics of the Hive: The Insect Metaphor in Literature (University of Iowa Press) mines literary versions of a primal act: ...

What is a metaphor? How does it help people learn to write? What good is it to even to ask such questions? Though Bangladeshi culture values literature greatly and so recognizes its value in poetry we ...

This post is the second in a series entitled The Writer's Laboratory. See the introductory post for more information. Source: correcting-1870721_1920 PixabayCCO 3844328 The metaphor is one of the most ...

The UC Davis Health System’s Interprofessional Book Club, in meetings through January, is exploring the connections between the Great Migration and social determinants of health and health disparities ...

The player kicked the ball. The patient kicked the habit. The villain kicked the bucket. The verbs are the same. The syntax is identical. The player kicked the ball. The patient kicked the habit. The ...

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