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 ...

This lesson is as fun as recess! Join Ms. Randi House as she talks about similes and metaphors and how they make reading a lot more interesting. Rise and Shine is available to stream on pbs.org and ...

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

"Narcissus" by Caravaggio (c. 1598). Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain What is an allegory? An allegory (Greek, "a speaking about something else") is a complete and cohesive narrative, for ...

For something like the past five years, Sarah and James Bowdoin Professor of Digital and Computational Studies Eric Chown and Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies Fernando ...