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 ...
"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 ...
Over the course of a long and prolific career, Prince wrote songs on a wide variety of topics. Anyone who knows anything about Prince, though, knows that he was particularly concerned with what was ...