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

A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes something by saying it is something else. It's not actually true but it gives the reader a clearer idea of what it is like. Extended metaphors are ...

With nods to both Emily Dickinson and the hymns of Isaac Watts, this finds a mineral solidity in its metaphors of life and death Death makes dead metaphor revive Death makes dead metaphor revive, Turn ...