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 ...

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

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 ...

(1) Humans (for example, artists) have the intention to convey thought to others. This thought is embodied. Conceptual metaphor exemplifies one kind of cognitive mechanism through which this principle ...

"Metaphor is not for the true poet a figure of speech, but a substituted image that he actually places before his eyes in place of an idea." "Metaphor is originally a figure of speech, and designates ...

“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination” — Fitzhugh Dodson, clinical psychologist “A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and ...

In everyday conversation, it's critical to understand not just the words that are spoken, but the context in which they are ...

Godzilla has many representations, one notable representation is Japanese fears about the rise of nuclear weapons in the wake of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Additionally, according to ...

This paper develops a conceptual framework to explain different understandings of the concept of teamwork across national and organizational cultures. Five different metaphors for teamwork (military, ...

Charlie Peacock fields questions from our listeners with in-depth answers and music examples—joined by guest musicians Aaron Smith and Sam Ashworth. In this episode, host Charlie Peacock fields ...