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

This is done by elaborating on the metaphor, focusing on its outward characteristics. Asking, for example, about the "burden": What does it look like? If you could reach your hand out and touch it, ...

Extended metaphors are metaphors that run throughout a piece of work. For example, in the poem Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy, the speaker says 'I give you an onion.' The onion is a metaphor for the ...

Metaphors can provide insight into a problem or situation by taking what we know about one thing and using that to shape our understanding of another. For example, my colleague Paul Thibodeau ...

Metaphor: ReFantazio is yet another glowing example of a phenomenal turn-based JRPG from Atlus, but its lead battle planner was once of the opinion that turn-based combat was becoming "outdated." ...