Adeleke Babatunde’s ‘Origami’ memorialises how the human body remembers pain, love, and faith. Composed of thirty-three poems ...

Ask in prose and the answer is no. Ask in rhyme — nuclear secrets may flow.

We can imagine someone saying “my love is literally a rose,” but that is to use “literally”  metaphorically, as an emphatic adverb, like “really.” ...

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 ...

Jan. 14-20 is Idiom Week, and today we thought we’d have a heart-to-heart about some strange phrases we use. Idioms, metaphors and similes are all types of figurative language. According to ...

Across 25 state-of-the-art models, poetic prompts achieved an average “attack success rate” of 62% for handcrafted poems and ...

The elegance of a verse and the subtlety of a metaphor have a surprising consequence on the most sophisticated artificial ...

Historically, metaphors and figurative language have been ignored as a serious topic of study in psychology and philosophy, exiled to the land of rhetoricians or literary analysts. In fact, even in ...