Metaphor is to pedagogy, what foreplay is to love. It prepares our understanding with lightness and gentleness. Rather than going straight to the lesson of experience, metaphor is a kindly detour that ...

A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares one thing to another without using “like” or “as.” This guide explains the definition, workings, and impact of metaphors in literature and daily life.

From Open Letters Monthly: "Perhaps the simplest way to think about metaphor is as the connection formed when meaning is transferred from one thing to another. This is not the only way to construe ...

Godzilla has many representations, one notable representation is Japanese fears about the rise of nuclear weapons in the wake of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Additionally, according to ...

This post is part 2 of a series. To see the first entry, click here. In my last post, we discussed how literature can force you to become aware of and understand specific things. We considered how ...

Often the best way to understand a complicated matter is through the use of metaphor. Over the past 25 years, the marketing, advertising and media industries have seen the transformation of Nielsen ...

Football guys are built different. They’re single-minded. They’re hyper-focused on X’s and O’s. They’re ready to feel disrespected at a moment’s notice over literally anything. They’re dialed in. What ...

The fundamental failure of Dean Starkman’s The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism—and of mainstream journalism more generally—is hidden ...

For those wondering what was meant by the seed metaphor, here is the I Am Groot season 2 ending explained. This details what exactly was meant by the seed and what happens after it is destroyed. At ...