Ignacio Gonzalez-Martinez has a flash of inspiration about the role metaphors play in creative thought. The equivalence between Richard Feynman’s and Julian Schwinger’s distinct formulations of ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHENNAI: Is your pot half-full or half-empty? Has it ever occurred that pottery traditions of a region have been influential ...

Verghese shares what caring for HIV-affected people taught him on Day 2 of Coal India Kolkata Literary Meet 2025 ...

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

Horror can carry a lot of metaphors, but it needs to be the right metaphor. In 2020’s “Invisible Man,” Leigh Whannell ...

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Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt on her reframing the Cinderella story as body horror about the bloody pursuit of beauty.

Corporate executives often use war metaphors like “declaring war on the competition” to project strength and confidence in their strategies. Research reveals that these aggressive metaphors ...

Tadeusz Dąbrowski on stage at the Shakespeare Theatre in Gdansk, Poland.

From the "Twilight Zone" episode "Eye of the Beholder," Janet Tyler (Donna Douglas), a prisoner of a society run by piglike ...