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 ...

We think of metaphors as the result of creativity. We assume Macbeth said, “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage,” after Shakespeare got his genius ...

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 ...

“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,” ...

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 ...

The clever folk over at Kintek have posted a handy system-to-system guide for anyone working in the mobile development space. This metaphor overview quickly references how items like buttons, switches ...

Alex Garland is a director who isn’t afraid of the abstract. Metaphors permeate his films; from the 2014 sci-fi classic “Ex Machina” to the Natalie Portman-led “Annihilation,” Garland is a director ...

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 ...