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 ...

We can imagine someone saying “my love is literally a rose,” but that is to use “literally”  metaphorically, as an emphatic adverb, like “really.” ...

Language is not just a tool for communication; it is a medium for thought, imagination, and understanding. Among its many devices, the metaphor stands out as one of the most powerful. Far from being ...

Source: Francesco Bini/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The most famous of all allegories is the Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato compares unphilosophical people to prisoners who, having spent their ...

Joy Clarkson peels back the veil of overfamiliarity from commonplace expressions and images. I’m afraid these men would only slow me down,” says a cocksure Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of the ...