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 ...

It's human nature to conceive of abstract ideas through more immediate, concrete experiences—which is to say, through metaphors. Most of the words we have for abstract concepts began this way. We can ...

The human brain has an affinity for metaphors—a word or phrase that means something other than what it literally denotes. In addition to stimulating higher levels of mental processing, metaphors ...

Let's face it, no matter what time of year it is and regardless of what and where we are, it is easy, correction, very easy for us to get bored. This is coming from an NYPD detective, conflict ...