Don’t sell yourself short by ignoring these powerful, vivid phrases to communicate more effectively. In your writing projects, you can keep from barking up the wrong tree by learning a little bit more ...

From William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney, figurative language such as idiom, metaphor, symbolism and allegory all function to make a poem sound more colourful and appealing to the reader. But are we ...

When a 5th grader on the Crow reservation in Montana, who was one of the best students in her class, asked to do a science experiment for extra credit, her teacher was happy to oblige. The teacher ...