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 ...

THE WHISTLING ZONE by Herbert Kubly. 348 pages. Simon & Schuster. $4.95. The author of a prizewinning travel book, An American in Italy, has come home to write a satire about America. So much contact ...

A few years ago, Michele Wucker turned a metaphor loose that keeps charging through the lofty realms of business, finance and politics. In her 2016 book "The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on ...

There are those who regard the availability of metaphor as a blessing, an enhancement of the ranges of life. In one of the epigraphs to Denis Donoghue’s subtle and engrossing new book, the poet John ...