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 ...

Cristopher Hollingsworth has brought new meaning to “buzz” about books. His Poetics of the Hive: The Insect Metaphor in Literature (University of Iowa Press) mines literary versions of a primal act: ...

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 ...

(1) Humans (for example, artists) have the intention to convey thought to others. This thought is embodied. Conceptual metaphor exemplifies one kind of cognitive mechanism through which this principle ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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