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 ...

Cristopher Hollingsworth has brought new meaning to “buzz” about books. His Poetics of the Hive: The Insect Metaphor in Literature (University of Iowa Press) mines literary versions of a primal act: ...

A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares one thing to another without using “like” or “as.” This guide explains the ...

Something intimate happens with the right metaphor in fiction. There is an emotion or idea. Instead of describing it directly, the author leads the reader through an intricate series of thoughts: You ...

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

Motorcycles provide an open road for literature — literally and figuratively. They're sometimes the dramatic device writers use to talk about many things: adventure, rebellion, even inner peace. But ...

The Centre for Canadian Culture at the University of Udine is proud to invite you to the international conference The Canadian Cultural Mosaic as Metaphor: Representations and Transformations of ...