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 ...

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 ...

Song Lin’s poem, translated by Dong Li, primarily uses interesting images to articulate the feelings of a “divided self” and a sense of being everywhere and nowhere at once. The poet left China in the ...

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

— 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 ...

A metaphor equates two things based on a commonality. If we say that Charlie is “crying wolf,” we mean that he shares certain features with the boy in Aesop’s fable. The context of the statement and ...

Life and identity are fluid, evolving through stages akin to the changing seasons, each offering new transformations. Identity is not defined by a single moment but by an ongoing process of becoming, ...

As a pulmonologist, breath is both my profession and my poetry. Each day, I witness its fragility — how a single breath can steady a frightened patient, how a missed one can overwhelm a family, how a ...

I started consciously thinking about metaphors and similes when I began writing my first novel, Two Sisters of Coyoacán. I wanted to describe characters and events in rich ways that would make the ...