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 ...

When I teach writing workshops, one of the prompts I like to give my students is this: “Choose a metaphor that characterizes your spiritual life, and describe why it’s meaningful to you.” Some ...

Key Takeaways Warren Buffett's snowball metaphor is that "wet snow" refers to whatever sticks and adds value—skills, knowledge, relationships. The "long hill" that a snowball rolls down is time.The ...

Life and identity are fluid, evolving through stages akin to the changing seasons, each offering new transformations. Identity is not defined by a single moment but by an ongoing process of becoming, ...

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

The human brain has an affinity for metaphors—a word or phrase that means something other than what it literally denotes. In addition to stimulating higher levels of mental processing, metaphors ...

— For a people who talk as much as we Americans, we are strangely deficient in current proverb and available metaphor. With the exception of certain Yankee quaintnesses and the topsy - turviness of ...

This past weekend in Jacksonville, I was able to spend time with my 4-year-old granddaughter, Carter, who loves to play in my car. She pretends to drive and then invites me to be the driver. She ...

For millions of families in the United States, spring turning into summer means baseball season shifting into full gear — from Major League stadiums to the small-town Little League sandlot fields. For ...