What are metaphors and similes? Find out how you can use metaphors and similies to bring your writing to life. What is onomatopoeia? Discover onomatopoeia is when a word sounds like what it means.

Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to ...

Explore writing poetry and celebrate National Poetry Day. This National Poetry Day Live Lesson for KS2/2nd Level pupils explores the theme of 'change' and includes reading, perfor ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. By eight o'clock every Saturday morning in winter, there are boys strapping on their footy boots in ...

Creating similes is one of the best ways to stimulate creativity. They warm up your mental engines and help you look at the world with new and different perspectives. Similes help you understand one ...

"Narcissus" by Caravaggio (c. 1598). Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain What is an allegory? An allegory (Greek, "a speaking about something else") is a complete and cohesive narrative, for ...

The press has always used metaphors and examples to simplify complex issues and make them easier to understand. With the rise ...