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 ...

A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares one thing to another without using “like” or “as.” This guide explains the ...

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: ...

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

Motorcycles provide an open road for literature — literally and figuratively. They're sometimes the dramatic device writers use to talk about many things: adventure, rebellion, even inner peace. But ...

The Centre for Canadian Culture at the University of Udine is proud to invite you to the international conference The Canadian Cultural Mosaic as Metaphor: Representations and Transformations of ...

PESHAWAR: Speakers at a function here on Monday termed noted Urdu poet Prof Mohsin Ehsan as metaphor of refined literary expressions. They said that the late poet got international recognition owing ...