There will be no messing around in this corner today. This morning, we’re going to talk about figures of speech. We’ll start with metaphors and similes and then work into neat things like the ...

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 ...

Figures of speech are used in many kinds of texts, including legal texts. The late Justice Scalia saw "speech" and "press" in the First Amendment as "a sort of synecdoche" (p. 38 here). And several ...

Those words, in bold black and electric green, are emblazoned at the entrance to the new “Figures of Speech” exhibit at the ICA. The phrase is designer Virgil Abloh’s shorthand way of describing two ...