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 ...

It can be quite revealing to tune in to the kind of imagery people use when talking. Consider, for example, how people speak about the current economic crisis. Some view the economy as a complex ...

"Narcissus" by Caravaggio (c. 1598). Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain What is an allegory? An allegory (Greek, "a speaking about something else") is a complete and cohesive narrative, for ...

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

Juneau's Ernestine Hayes, author of the 2006 award-winning "Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir," has returned with a second memoir that builds upon the first in even deeper, richer, more ...

In any science, it’s hard to talk to the outside world without resorting to metaphor and analogy. That is especially true for the nascent field of synthetic biology, which promises to apply the ideas ...