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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, we interview the coiners of two of our most overused cliches. Our first guest is Polly Anna Doubtful, creator of the ...

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Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 97, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1977), pp. 441-459 (19 pages) Compared with classical Sanskrit the style of the Rāmāyaṇa is undeveloped, with very few figures of ...

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. —Gustave Flaubert Notebook departs this month from the table of contents, its purpose served and its license expired after a term of twenty ...