Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to ...

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 ...

Learn how to get your ideas from your head and into your poem. Anyone can write poetry. You can write poetry about whatever you feel like, in whatever way you want, for whatever reason you choose.

Literal language is when we say what we mean. Like “The news van is parked outside,” or “Meeting new people makes me nervous.” Figurative language can be anything that doesn't mean what it says ...