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 ...

Metaphors are those hidden little zingers that pop up in our conversations, unconsciously and effortlessly, without a nanosecond of thought. One of the most delicious things about language is how ...

The human brain has an affinity for metaphors—a word or phrase that means something other than what it literally denotes. In addition to stimulating higher levels of mental processing, metaphors ...

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

Let us start with a little poetry joke, shall we? Q: What did the poet say to Luke Skywalker? A: Metaphors be with you! Looking for a free mini puzzle? Play the USA TODAY Quick Cross now. As a poet by ...

Joy Clarkson peels back the veil of overfamiliarity from commonplace expressions and images. I’m afraid these men would only slow me down,” says a cocksure Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of the ...

When I teach writing workshops, one of the prompts I like to give my students is this: “Choose a metaphor that characterizes your spiritual life, and describe why it’s meaningful to you.” Some ...

— For a people who talk as much as we Americans, we are strangely deficient in current proverb and available metaphor. With the exception of certain Yankee quaintnesses and the topsy - turviness of ...

The Women’s Theatre Project’s episodic world premiere of Women Drivers explores the harried life of a driving instructor, Erin (Pilar Uribe), and the pupils who consume her life. There’s the ...