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

A simile describes something by comparing it to something else, using like or as. A simile is a useful way to describe something without using a long list of adjectives. It can create a vivid image in ...

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 ...

to the outer reaches, fled and ever-fixed, adrift with our space-faring dead. Mark Granier’s poems have appeared in the New Statesman, Poetry Review and Carol Ann Duffy’s online pandemic ...