Authenticity is obvious in paintings signed by Michelangelo. A painting from the same period, with the same skill, and ...

I’M writing this on a Sunday and was at church today. You probably know about Father Alvarez who is our favorite priest if ...

Like simile, metaphor, personification and hyperbole, irony is a very useful figure of speech. Writers and other creative workers regularly make use of it, including comedians.

Metaphor Analysis of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Academic Writing,” by Fangzhou Jin et al., in Computers & Education, Vol. 228; April 2025 (data) ...

Okay, so maybe you’re convinced that you need to choose your metaphors carefully – and consider testing to make sure they have the desired effect. But given that metaphors matter so much, it’s ...

Common examples include metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, and symbolism. Instead of stating something directly, artists use these literary devices to engage listeners, making them think, ...

Metaphors, similes, and analogies are figures of speech, which are a type of literary device (also called, depending on the context, a rhetorical device or poetic device).

When talking about a child’s diagnosis of dyslexia, mothers rely on metaphors. A closer look at these metaphors reveals much about how schools can better help them.

Image composite by Emma Gometz using elements from Canva Here at Science Friday, we’re big fans of metaphors. They can make complicated scientific concepts easier to understand, for both non-experts ...

Eurogamer's review of Metaphor: ReFantazio, the latest Japanese RPG from Atlus that sees the studio in epic, operatic form.

This work aims at presenting some results of the research developed in the Project named Metaphor, Discursive Genre and Argumentation (MGDA) which has the purpose of describing linguistic expressions ...