"Super-GAU": the word has made a career for itself in recent weeks, fortunately only in the figurative sense. But is it ...

Netflix's psychological drama, The Sand Castle, follows a certain ambiguity in its plot progression, contributed to by a layered narrative treatment. On the ...

It was as green as a lizard. Jess is as graceful as a gazelle. Try using metaphors and similes to make your own poetry or other writing more descriptive and interesting. Some similes are used a ...

Corporate executives often use war metaphors like “declaring war on the competition” to project strength and confidence in ...

Often a simple metaphor communicates better than many words. Back when I taught middle school grades, the students often loved discovering metaphors in real life to analyze their meanings. One ...

As director of the National University of Singapore Futures Office, part of my work involves talking to students. After all, ...

Yet one part of Army culture stands out as problematic: the ubiquity of sports metaphors when talking about complex situations. From my perspective, the Army seems to rely excessively on sports ...

Hyperbole, similes and metaphors are all types of figurative language that help to make your writing more interesting. They can be particularly helpful for creating an image of what you are writin ...

This kind of statement epitomizes the aggressive war metaphors that often appear in corporate communication. And while it’s a particularly colorful example, it’s hardly exceptional.