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 ...

Poetry and social media join forces in April, as Tell Me More celebrates National Poetry Month with the Muses and Metaphor series. We'll feature poems exchanged via Twitter by NPR fans — always in 140 ...

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

St. Joseph High School juniors in English teacher Alicia Yrle’s class recently wrote extended metaphor poems as part of an assignment related to the poem “Huswifery “ by Edward Taylor. It compares the ...

Adèle Barclay’s If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You (Nightwood Editions, 96 pages, $19) brims with crackling imagery and whip-smart delivery: “Fear is a magenta horse / on a carousel — don’t get ...

Song Lin’s poem, translated by Dong Li, primarily uses interesting images to articulate the feelings of a “divided self” and a sense of being everywhere and nowhere at once. The poet left China in the ...

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