UCLA Extension has been using his books in its classes on and off for at least 15 years, said Dana Eusan, one of the instructors for the “Street Talk” course. Eusan said she thinks English as a Second ...

There will be no messing around in this corner today. This morning, we’re going to talk about figures of speech. We’ll start with metaphors and similes and then work into neat things like the ...

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 ...

Figures of speech are used in many kinds of texts, including legal texts. The late Justice Scalia saw "speech" and "press" in the First Amendment as "a sort of synecdoche" (p. 38 here). And several ...

Those words, in bold black and electric green, are emblazoned at the entrance to the new “Figures of Speech” exhibit at the ICA. The phrase is designer Virgil Abloh’s shorthand way of describing two ...

With this hopefully intriguing question, I welcome you back to class. Because the statement is literary, it is likely to be intriguing. And it is relevant to our mission here because language and ...

To say it’s been a whirlwind year for Flathead High School speech and debate head coach and English teacher Shannon O’Donnell is an understatement. O’Donnell still seemed to be on cloud nine during an ...