When my client said, "I'm at the end of my rope," he was metaphorically talking about his frustrations. In simple English, when you portray a person, place, thing, or an action as being something else ...

Pierre-Paul Delvaux exhorts that unlike poetic metaphor, which aims to make the familiar unusual, pedagogical metaphor aims to make the unusual familiar. "[...] There is in the use of pedagogical ...

“You can say that I’m a lover of stairs.” Director Bong Joon-ho on the underlying metaphor of his new film, Parasite. Bong Joon-ho is obsessed with stairs. “You can say that I’m a lover of stairs,” ...

Graphic facilitation is a set of techniques designed to share and bring out ideas and cohesion, using a mix of visuals, keywords and expressions. Images play an important role. And these images are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s a fun video that uses a lot of symbolism and visual metaphors to describe the experience of a first date. The idea is simple but complex at the same time: we’re getting a peek inside the mind ...

When my client said, "I'm at the end of my rope," he was metaphorically talking about his frustrations. In simple English, when you portray a person, place, thing, or an action as being something else ...