Hyperbole, similes and metaphors are all types of figurative language that help to make your writing more interesting. They can be particularly helpful for creating an image of what you are ...

Hyperbole, lies, and delusions are all forms of falsehoods, but of different magnitudes. The first are exaggerated claims not meant to be taken literally.

‘Weaponized’ Hyperbole and Our Crisis of Vocabulary. When all language is exaggerated, none of it has meaning. Share. Resize. Listen (57 sec) Delicious doughnuts Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto.

Like simile, metaphor, personification and hyperbole, irony is a very useful figure of speech. Writers and other creative workers regularly make use of it, including comedians. It can, however ...

"The classic example of chutzpah," said Jamelle Bouie in The New York Times, "is that of the child who murders his parents and then pleads for mercy as an orphan." The 2024 presidential election ...

But I was watching the room more than the candidates. I’ve been watching these things with my students – politically aware folks between the ages of 19 and 22 – for three decades.

Mr William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, (faithfully reproduced in Fac Simile from the Edition of 1685) ...