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 ...

Source: Francesco Bini/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 The most famous of all allegories is the Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato compares unphilosophical people to prisoners who, having spent their ...

"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 ...

(1) Humans (for example, artists) have the intention to convey thought to others. This thought is embodied. Conceptual metaphor exemplifies one kind of cognitive mechanism through which this principle ...

Scientists have used MRI scanners to discover the parts of the brain which understand metaphors, in both healthy volunteers and people with schizophrenia. They found that people with schizophrenia ...

Felicity Deamer has previously received funding from the AHRC (AH/L004070/1) 2014-2016, and the Wellcome Trust (WT108720) 2016-2019. Figurative language, by which the speaker intends to communicate ...