Poetry can be used to create a clear image in your reader's mind. You can use figurative language in your poems to help you do this. You can also write about the five senses (smell, taste ...

Poet Joseph Coelho explores how figurative and descriptive language encourages imaginative writing and creative exploration. He shows us that poems can be a snapshot of a particular moment and ...

Dr. Turner’s distillation of the views of particular major thinkers or recurring issues in the study of figurative language is…. admirably clear and incisive, effectively, and engagingly drawing ...

Pritchett, Lena K. Vaid, Jyotsna Tosun, Sumeyra and Walla, Peter 2016. Of black sheep and white crows: Extending the bilingual dual coding theory to memory for idioms ...

High school students who study poetry forms come away with confidence to analyze poetry and to create and share their own ...

Learning a new language can be tricky, but how many words do you need to know before you can actually get by in a foreign tongue? That was the question posed to BBC Radio 4's More or Less ...

Body language is a silent orchestra, as people constantly give clues to what they’re thinking and feeling. Non-verbal messages including body movements, facial expressions, vocal tone and volume ...

As we age, our ability to learn new skills, like mastering a foreign language or picking up a musical instrument, seems to fade. The culprit? A decline in brain plasticity - the brain's ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

What do we mean by “main language”? At the United Nations, “main language” generally refers to the language of an individual's higher education. For linguists outside the Organization ...

Korean, known in the language itself as Kugo, is the language of the Korean Peninsula in northeast Asia. In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) there are 20 million ...

This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds ...