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 ...

Metaphor is to pedagogy, what foreplay is to love. It prepares our understanding with lightness and gentleness. Rather than going straight to the lesson of experience, metaphor is a kindly detour that ...

"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 ...

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 post is part 2 of a series. To see the first entry, click here. In my last post, we discussed how literature can force you to become aware of and understand specific things. We considered how ...

Often the best way to understand a complicated matter is through the use of metaphor. Over the past 25 years, the marketing, advertising and media industries have seen the transformation of Nielsen ...