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Exploring the Power of Figurative Language: Metaphors and Beyond
This video explores figurative language's role in writing, focusing on metaphors, similes, allusions, personification, and hyperbole. It highlights how these devices enhance understanding and persuasion, using examples and interactive...
Curated Video
Metaphor and Similes
Learn the difference between metaphors and similes and understand why these two figurative language devices are so important in writing.
TED Talks
Marisa Fick-Jordan: The wonder of Zulu wire art
In this short, image-packed talk, Marisa Fick-Jordan talks about how a village of traditional Zulu wire weavers built a worldwide market for their dazzling work.
Curated Video
Similes Examples | ESL Guessing Game | Intermediate Grade 6
English ESL teachers and ESL students will love our Similes Examples Guessing Game. This is a fun guessing game with 10 popular simile examples. Firstly, students will see part of a zoomed in picture. If they can guess the simile and...
The Wall Street Journal
COP27 Debrief
PwC Chairman Bob Moritz joins the WSJ CEO Council to discuss what was achieved by the politicians, NGO's and business people at COP27, and what it all means for business.
Curated Video
Matching & Mirroring: How to Influence by Building Rapport
In a way, Rapport is an example of Reciprocation – which we looked at in the last video. However, it is about the reciprocation of movement and posture, gesture and expression, and words and speech. And, it will introduce us to the key...
Homeschool Pop
Metaphors for Kids | Language Arts Learning Video
YAY! Learn all about metaphors in this language arts learning video for kids! Look at examples of metaphors, and the differences between metaphors and similes! ❤ Homeschool Pop? Join our team and get tattoos here:...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The secret society of the Great Dismal Swamp | Dan Sayers
Straddling Virginia and North Carolina is an area that was once described as the "most repulsive of American possessions." By 1728, it was known as the Great Dismal Swamp. But while many deemed it uninhabitable, recent findings suggest...
TED Talks
TED: 3 clues to understanding your brain | VS Ramachandran
Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Venturing into Visuals – Analysing Visual Techniques and Text (Stage 4, Years/Grades 7-8)
In this second lesson, we’ll venture deeper into visual techniques. Take a closer look at the nitty-gritty of images and how composers arrange visual elements to create certain effects. Build your confidence with important techniques...
Curated Video
Oh, How My Tree Inspires Me
Mr. Griot reviews figurative language and writes an original poem. He uses the poem to identify examples of simile, metaphor, idioms, personification, and alliteration.
The Wall Street Journal
The New Global Art Market
Edward Dolman, chief executive of auction house Phillips, and Gagosian founder and owner, Larry Gagosian, speak with WSJ art market reporter Kelly Crow about how art will expand around the world.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Ethos Pathos Logos
Ethos, pathos, and logos in public speaking give an important introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric that we can use to improve the persuasiveness of your presentations and public speaking. Ethos: Personal credibility. We can establish our...
Cerebellum
The Elements Of Poetry - Overview
The Elements of Poetry - Figurative language, meter and rhyme, simile, and metaphor . these are a few of the many topics explored in this lively video tour through the genre of poetry. Other elements illustrated in the program include:...
Wonderscape
Exploring Figures of Speech: Symbolism and More
This video delves into various figures of speech, focusing on symbolism, allegory, onomatopoeia, paradox, and puns. It uses engaging examples, like Shakespeare's works, to explain how symbols convey complex, abstract ideas in literature,...
Wonderscape
Literature Kids: Exploring Figures of Speech
This video is a teacher explaining different figures of speech, including symbolism, allegory, onomatopoeia, paradox, and pun. The teacher provides examples and explanations for each figure of speech and how they are used in literature....
Curated Video
Prose Poetry
This video discusses the definition of prose poetry and provides an example from the genre.
Curated Video
Julius Caesar 1.2 Word Nerd: Yoke
This video examines the etymology and symbolic use of the word "yoke." The video highlights how Romans used the yoke as a symbol of subjugation when conquering new territories, illustrating the transfer of this concept into modern...
Curated Video
Review for You: Characteristics of Poetry
Mr. Griot explores the characteristics of poetry and figurative language by looking at examples and examining text.
TED Talks
TED: The rise of predatory scams -- and how to prevent them | Jane Walsh
Questionable phone calls, concerning emails, heart-rending stories from a sudden new friend in need of endless financial support: elder abuse can take many forms, says lawyer Jane Walsh. And as technology becomes more sophisticated,...
Big Think
Why you’re probably reading the Bible wrong | Rob Bell
Religious scholar, pastor, and all-around fascinating guy Rob Bell thinks that most everyone teaching religious texts these days is teaching it wrong. It's a lot of parables and metaphors, he posits, and there's no way that people should...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Judy Klein -- The Rules of War and the Development of Economic Ideas
Sometimes navigating through the field of economics can feel like dodging bullets in a metaphorical war. But to INET grantee Judy Klein, a professor at Mary Baldwin College, this is no metaphor. Rather, Klein believes that understanding...
Alliterative
History of Women's Magazines: The Endnotes
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