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 ...

Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to make writing beautiful and convey meaning. Use these favorite mentor texts ...

St. Joseph High School juniors in English teacher Alicia Yrle’s class recently wrote extended metaphor poems as part of an assignment related to the poem “Huswifery “ by Edward Taylor. It compares the ...

Tell Me More is celebrating National Poetry Month in April with its third annual 'Muses and Metaphor' series. Listeners can tweet their short poems using the #TMMPoetry. You might have noticed that it ...

Poetry and social media join forces in April, as Tell Me More celebrates National Poetry Month with the Muses and Metaphor series. We'll feature poems exchanged via Twitter by NPR fans — always in 140 ...

Murray Bartlett, Laurie Santos, and more guests join Elisa New to read Wallace Stevens. Modernist poet Wallace Stevens balanced his long career as an insurance executive with a thrilling life of the ...

As a pulmonologist, breath is both my profession and my poetry. Each day, I witness its fragility — how a single breath can steady a frightened patient, how a missed one can overwhelm a family, how a ...