What Are Idioms?
Idioms occur often in everyday speech and writing. People who grow up speaking English hear them over and over again.
Figurative Language
Simile & Personification
In reading literature, especially in your study of poetry, you encounter many figures of speech. Those most commonly found are metaphor, simile and personification. In each of these, the writer draws a comparison. Two things are compared which are not really alike but are similar in at least one respect. By making the comparison, the