Not so many years ago, a senior colleague of mine captured the transformative power of teaching with a memorable metaphor. “We’re helping our students rearrange their intellectual furniture,” he would ...

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge called metaphor “an act of the imagination,” whereas he relegated simile to “an act of fancy.” Photo from National Portrait Gallery, 1795. Public Domain Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

I started consciously thinking about metaphors and similes when I began writing my first novel, Two Sisters of Coyoacán. I wanted to describe characters and events in rich ways that would make the ...

We have plumbed the depths of abstract words, but what about abstract ideas? Abstractions are a fact of professional life. The law is littered with them. Think of the legislative process, intellectual ...