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 ...

Source: Francesco Bini/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The most famous of all allegories is the Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato compares unphilosophical people to prisoners who, having spent their ...

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 ...