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 ...

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

"Narcissus" by Caravaggio (c. 1598). Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain What is an allegory? An allegory (Greek, "a speaking about something else") is a complete and cohesive narrative, for ...

Poetry and social media join forces in April, as Tell Me More celebrates National Poetry Month with the Muses and Metaphor series. We'll feature poems exchanged via Twitter by NPR fans — always in 140 ...

Mindful awareness has been described in many ways: You’re standing on the bank of a stream and observing leaves float by. Or maybe you’re gazing up at the sky and noticing the clouds as they shift ...