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

But what did Lewis Carroll, a lover of riddles, mean by “mad”? The phrase “he’s mad as a hatter” was colloquial in Britain before “Alice.” Inquiries “respecting this simile” had ...

The simile is the close relation of the metaphor ... Getty Images The word metaphor in Greek means ‘to carry across’ (Credit: Getty Images) Some metaphors are termed ‘dead’ because ...

Those two are like peas in a pod. Now, that's a simile because it just really means that two people are really great friends or maybe there are a lot alike. So they're not really peas in a pod ...

And that means the creation of images through simile and metaphor -- usually the purview of novelists and poets. Four prominent physicists join host Paul Kennedy in conversation about the vitality ...