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 ...

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but as far as I can tell, 2Pac was the first. (Okay, somebody did—thanx!) In 1996, almost two months after his passing the legendary rapper’s 2Pac's first ...

The centerpiece track of Kanye West’s 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy finds West and friends embracing their metaphorical monstrousness and running with it. “Everybody know I’m a ...

Richard Thompson wrote "The Great Valerio", and Linda Thompson sung it. Together they display the power of metaphor in songwriting.

In both life and music, the secret to success is love. This universal emotion stands out as the key protagonist in the most listened-to songs of all time. According to a study by Salvador Climent Roca ...

For some reason, lemons are the go-to fruit for nutsack metaphors. (Seems big, doesn’t it?) It may have begun with Robert Johnson, who allegedly sold his soul in exchange for lyrics like “You can ...

"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 ...

GROSS: Our rock critic Ken Tucker has a review of the latest album by Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman. It's called "Life Will See You Now." Ken says Lekman's very popular in Europe, and his ...

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ songs ‘The Alchemy’ and ‘So High School’ are not her only musical allusions to sports ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article demonstrates how the cosmological metaphors in ritual song texts are an important but unrecognized resource in the repertoire of ...