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What is a metaphor? Check out these examples in songs, literature and more.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 11 months agoNo matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used...
What does alliteration mean? Definitions and real-world examples in ads, songs and poetry.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 12 months agoEven if you're years out of school and not actively taking an English class, it's hard not to note...
Simile Examples in Literature and Everyday Language
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSimiles are like spices for writing: Used in the right proportion, they can add zest and verve to your prose. Once you're familiar with them, you'll...
Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
The Conversation en Español via Yahoo News· 1 month agoScreenshot from the video game 'The Stanley Parable'. Stanley Parable In October 2016, the Swedish...
All's fair in love and poetry? How to write a poem (with a little help from Taylor Swift)
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 month agoWill Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department” usher in a new era of poetry...
Tallahassee writer Melanie Rawls bends fairy tale genre to address grief | Book review
Gannett via AOL· 31 minutes ago"Once upon a time . . . and they lived happily ever after” is the formula of the fairy tales and...
'People are capable of making really beautiful things': Wisconsin's new poet laureate has big plans...
Green Bay Press-Gazette via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFORT ATKINSON - Well before he would be named the new Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Nicholas Gulig...
Taylor Swift Isn’t a Tortured Poet
The Wall Street Journal· 1 month agoESSAY When James Joyce was writing “Ulysses,” his 1922 modernist masterpiece, he is supposed to have declared, “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles...
The Next Lesson In High School English Class? Taylor Swift And The Drake-Kendrick Beef.
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 week agoKendrick Lamar, left, and Taylor Swift are English teachers' pet pop stars for a reason. Frazer...
Taylor Swift has long been inspired by great poets. Will she make this the year of poetry?
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 month agoTick, tick, tick. Taylor Swift is dropping her highly anticipated 11th era album "The Tortured Poets...