This segment is about how artists and writers rely on symbolism to help convey their ideas. The Narrator walks the viewer through a symbolic analysis of a photograph by Wang Fen, “On the Wall: Haiku 6 ...

Here at Science Friday, we’re big fans of metaphors. They can make complicated scientific concepts easier to understand, for ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Metaphors in the History of Psychology describes and analyzes the ways in which ...

According to one study, we utter about one metaphor for every ten to twenty-five words, or about six metaphors a minute. I think that is a gross (pardon the metaphor) underestimate. Take (there ...

Yet metaphors may not only be special communicative devices, but a fundamental part of everyday cognition in the form of 'conceptual metaphors'. An enormous body of empirical evidence from cognitive ...

That’s what research from the University of California, San Diego, is showing. Choose your metaphors carefully, people. They do more than just describe a problem—they help shape the solution.

It was as green as a lizard. Jess is as graceful as a gazelle. Try using metaphors and similes to make your own poetry or other writing more descriptive and interesting. Some similes are used a ...