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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” address at 1963’s March on Washington is perhaps the most famous speech in American history. But fewer people remember the man behind King’s dream ...

Emily Austin's "Is This a Cry For Help?" chronicles grief, love and some of the strangest (and most wholesome) things she's ...

Have you ever heard someone describe their day as “a nightmare” or said that someone has a “heart of gold”? These aren’t literal descriptions—they’re metaphors, one of the most powerful tools in the ...

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If you're looking for new ways to make your advertising and social media copy pop, you might want to try a writing device called the metaphor. Metaphors have been used for decades by marketers to ...

Lucknow: The venue for this year's Metaphor Lucknow Litfest, starting Saturday, is an apt tribute to the legend Munshi Naval Kishore (1836–1895), a pioneering 19th-century Indian publisher and ...

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From Shakespearean authorship debates to AI-generated philosophical hoaxes, literature has a long history of playful deception. The article explores instances of literary trickery, including ...