I started consciously thinking about metaphors and similes when I began writing my first novel, Two Sisters of Coyoacán. I wanted to describe characters and events in rich ways that would make the ...

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

When you wake up from a vivid dream, it’s natural to think about what caused or triggered it from the day before. Let’s say you dreamed about a cat, and you remember that yesterday you saw a similar ...