We can imagine someone saying “my love is literally a rose,” but that is to use “literally”  metaphorically, as an emphatic ...

Dependable as a dictionary, commentator Paula LaRocque explores the power of the simile. I recently read a simile that made me laugh aloud. A simile, as you know, is a comparison that uses the words ...

A simile describes something by comparing it to something else, using like or as. A simile is a useful way to describe something without using a long list of adjectives. It can create a vivid image in ...

Do you know what 'free as a bird' and 'happy as a lark' mean? These are examples of 'similes' and we've explained this useful figure of speech below! Similes are expressions that use 'like' or 'as' to ...

JANINE: Big crowd in tonight, Jeff. JEFF: Including Bob the superfan. Bob here has never actually seen Jess perform. JANINE: Let’s help him picture her in his head - we can use metaphors and similes.

We use them so much in everyday language that we often don’t even notice them, but metaphors and similes help us think more deeply – and make sense of the world around us, writes Hélène Schumacher.

"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 ...

Legal texts in the sense of statutes and case opinions are not the only subjects for interpretation in law. A trial is a sign-and-symbol stew in which texts are simultaneously presented, interpreted, ...

The Big Bang, string theory, black holes. Theoretical physics may conjure up complicated equations filling up several blackboards. But central to the quest of understanding the universe is the role ...