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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper develops a conceptual framework to explain different understandings of the concept of teamwork across national and organizational cultures. Five different metaphors for teamwork (military, ...

"Metaphor is not for the true poet a figure of speech, but a substituted image that he actually places before his eyes in place of an idea." "Metaphor is originally a figure of speech, and designates ...

You can grasp a hand. You can also grasp a concept. One is literal. One is metaphorical. Our brains know the difference, but would we be able to understand the latter without the former? Previous ...

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 ...

“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination” — Fitzhugh Dodson, clinical psychologist “A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and ...