Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to convey meaning. Use these mentor texts to teach writers how to write similes ...

Art World ‘A Book Is the Perfect Metaphor for a Human Being’: Watch Chris Ware Explain the Meaning of His Famed Art Comics. As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists ...

James Geary is the London-based writer to help me see the subtle invasion that's happening under our noses, thanks to his book: I Is An Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the ...

A few years ago, Michele Wucker turned a metaphor loose that keeps charging through the lofty realms of business, finance and politics. In her 2016 book "The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act ...

To that end, this portrait of a fractured family serves as an apt metaphor for a fractured nation whose dysfunction — xenophobia, grievance, patriarchy, radicalism — is mirrored in the play by ...