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 ...

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.

Song Lin’s poem, translated by Dong Li, primarily uses interesting images to articulate the feelings of a “divided self” and a sense of being everywhere and nowhere at once. The poet left China in the ...

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

Martín Espada transforms cemetery lizards into powerful metaphors for American imperialism in his latest collection.

In case you've faced some hurdles solving the clue, Metaphor for fog's silent arrival, in a Carl Sandburg poem, we've got the answer for you. Crossword puzzles offer a fantastic opportunity to engage ...