This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds ...

Dr. Turner’s distillation of the views of particular major thinkers or recurring issues in the study of figurative language is…. admirably clear and incisive, effectively, and engagingly drawing ...

Can you match the different types of figurative language to the correct example? One has been done for you. Top tip! Assonance is when a vowel sound is repeated in words close together.

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Can you match the different types of figurative language to the correct example? One has been done for you. Top tip! Assonance is when a vowel sound is repeated in words close together.