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

Extended metaphors are metaphors that run throughout a piece of work. For example, in the poem Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy, the speaker says 'I give you an onion.' The onion is a metaphor for the ...

Metaphors can provide insight into a problem or situation by taking what we know about one thing and using that to shape our understanding of another. For example, my colleague Paul Thibodeau ...