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 ...

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Poetry and social media join forces in April, as Tell Me More celebrates National Poetry Month with the Muses and Metaphor series. We'll feature poems exchanged via Twitter by NPR fans — always in 140 ...

St. Joseph High School juniors in English teacher Alicia Yrle’s class recently wrote extended metaphor poems as part of an assignment related to the poem “Huswifery “ by Edward Taylor. It compares the ...

As much as we profess to favor Originality in art, for me at least, it's more accurate to say that we want Originality to be refashioned out of something real -- and that very act of refashioning is ...

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Sexuality expresses itself in the most beautiful and subtle ways. And perhaps poetry is an obvious vehicle to convey its journeys of discovery. But what happens when these journeys are brutally ...

Historically, metaphors and figurative language have been ignored as a serious topic of study in psychology and philosophy, exiled to the land of rhetoricians or literary analysts. In fact, even in ...