Wonderscape
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...
Cerebellum
The Elements Of Poetry - Figurative Language
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:...
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Sam Glucksberg - Understanding Figurative Language
Sam Glucksberg was born February 6, 1933, in Montreal, Quebec. He received his B.S. in psychology in 1956 at City College of New York, Magna Cum Laude. He then received his Ph.D in experimental psychology with distinction at New York...
The Learning Depot
Summer Idioms:Figurative Language to Enrich Your Expressions
Idioms are a form of figurative language that require a critical understanding of the expressions. Not to be taken literally, idioms are analogous to the literal representation they evoke. These eleven summer idioms relate to summer...
Curated Video
Macbeth 1.5 Discussion: Lady Macbeth's Language
This video delves into the rich use of figurative language in a brief but potent speech by Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's "Macbeth." The discussion highlights how Lady Macbeth manipulates words to foreshadow Duncan's impending doom and...
Wonderscape
Understanding Similes: The Art of Comparison in Language
This video examines similes, a key figure of speech used for comparison in writing. It explains how similes, characterized by the use of "like" or "as," differ from metaphors and enhance clarity and impact in communication. The video...
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
Julius Caesar 5.3 Figurative Language: “Son” and “Sun”
This video segment delves into a vivid description of Cassius's death in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," focusing on the symbolic use of blood and sunset imagery. It explores how Titanius uses these elements to reflect the decline of the...
Curated Video
I WONDER - Why Do Chameleons Change Colour?
This video is answering the question of why do chameleons change colour.
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.
Señor Jordan
Learn Spanish! - How to use Direct objects (lo, la, los, las)
This video lesson covers the direct objects (lo, la, los, and las) that we use in Spanish instead of 'it' and 'them'. We'll have to worry about gender, plurality and placement for these though! Stay tuned to figure out how. Rate this...
Brian McLogan
How to use elimination to solve a word problem
👉Learn how to solve a system of linear equations from a word problem. A system of equations is a set of more than one equations which are to be solved simultaneously. A word problem is a real world simulation of a mathematical concept....
Curated Video
Julius Caesar 2.1 Word Nerd: Whet
This video explores the etymology of the word "whet" and its application in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." The video highlights how this term has evolved to include figurative meanings such as enhancing one’s appetite or interest. It...
Englishing
Lesson on ADVERBS of time: yet, already, just and still (Using Present Perfect but not only)
This lesson is dedicated to the often confused adverbs of time: yet, already, just and still. Three of them are mostly used in the present perfect tenses but there also few exceptions. Mr. P./Marc will explain when it is also used...
Wonderscape
Understanding Words Using Context Clues
Learn how to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words by using context clues. Context clues provide hints within a sentence or paragraph that can help deduce the meaning of unknown words. Explore different types of context clues, such...
Wonderscape
Allusion in Literature: Conveying Meaning with Brevity
This video explores allusion, a literary technique that briefly mentions well-known references to convey deeper meanings. It emphasizes the importance of audience knowledge for effective allusions, using examples from Charles Dickens,...
Curated Video
A Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1.261 Word Nerd: Anoint
In the Bible, anointing is a sacred ceremony marking someone or something as chosen by God, typically involving the pouring of oil. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Robin humorously references this practice in his plan to apply a love...
Curated Video
A Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1.195 Word Nerd: Adamant
The word "adamant" originates from the Latin word "aramas," meaning a hard stone, and has evolved to denote anything unbreakable. In Shakespeare's era, "adamant" specifically referred to a lodestone or naturally occurring magnet,...
Curated Video
Rhetoric: The Golden Key to Verbal Persuasion
People have been persuading one another with their speech for as long as we have records. In many different cultures, aspiring lawyers, administrators, and politicians would have learned the science of rhetoric, of using language...
NativLang
Why is this the most popular word order across languages? – SOV
When languages around the world build a basic sentence, 43% arrange the words this way: subject - object - verb. Who does this? (Hint: not English!) How is it unique? Why is it so popular? Subscribe for more:...
NativLang
The Lost Language Recovery Trick - counting an undeciphered script
Got an undeciphered writing system you can't read? No problem! Here's how to start cracking a lost script: use your digits. I figured it was time to reconvene the Decipherment Club for this one. As Robinson points out in the introduction...
Big Think
How Spanish, not English, was nearly the world's language | John Lewis Gladdis
Want to know the reason North America speaks English and not Spanish? It all boils down to a single day in the English Channel in August of 1588, says Yale University history professor John Lewis Gaddis. The Spanish Armada was cleverly...
Curated Video
Summarizing a Poem
"Summarizing a Poem" uses the strategy of creating annotated notes to summarize a poem.