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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...