Samuel Taylor Coleridge called metaphor “an act of the imagination,” whereas he relegated simile to “an act of fancy.” Photo from National Portrait Gallery, 1795. Public Domain Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
Political commentators have spewed a spate of disparaging metaphors to describe President Donald Trump: “drunk uncle,” “dumpster fire,” “wrecking ball,” “carnival barker,” “human Molotov cocktail.” ...
Jan. 14-20 is Idiom Week, and today we thought we’d have a heart-to-heart about some strange phrases we use. Idioms, metaphors and similes are all types of figurative language. According to ...
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