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 ...

The tech world is teeming with metaphors (you might say the way an ocean is teeming with fish). Sometimes those metaphors are helpful for understanding new innovations and ideas, but other times they ...

Marble bust of Aristotle. Public domain. Metaphors are not user-friendly. They are hard to find and hard to use well. Unfortunately, metaphor is a mainstay of good lyric writing; indeed, of most ...

The press has always used metaphors and examples to simplify complex issues and make them easier to understand. With the rise ...

"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 ...

Metaphor: ReFantazio's Archetypes reflect characters' insecurities, showing them confronting anxiety head-on. Metaphor: ReFantazio's Archetype awakening scenes violently demonstrate characters ...

An example of kintsugi art. Source: Marco Montalti/Shutterstock I have often used six metaphors to help my adolescent patients better understand the nature of their psychotherapy and their healing ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACTCognitive linguistic researches basically place metaphors as tool and as a cognitive ability to join the motivation and the real ...