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 ...

What’s the most persuasive way to convey a message? Many writers say, “Tell a story!” Nothing hooks like narrative. I’ve said so myself. But research shows stories have a rival for hooking power: ...

If you call someone a piranha, first make sure you've got the right fish Wikimedia Commons We’ve all used a fishy metaphor in the past, but use the wrong one and you can look pretty stupid (as in this ...