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 ...

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 ...

Historically, metaphors and figurative language have been ignored as a serious topic of study in psychology and philosophy, exiled to the land of rhetoricians or literary analysts. In fact, even in ...

Pierre-Paul Delvaux exhorts that unlike poetic metaphor, which aims to make the familiar unusual, pedagogical metaphor aims to make the unusual familiar. "[...] There is in the use of pedagogical ...