A simile is a figure of speech where one thing is compared with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more...

Alliteration is when words start with the same sound: Sometimes these are in tongue twisters She sells sea shells on the sea shore...

An Antonomasia is a literary term in which a descriptive phrase is used to replace a person’s name. An Antonomasia can range from a...

An anecdote is a very short story about some real person or a real event that happened to the speaker. The idea of this story to make the...

An Adage is a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth. Adages provide us with simple guidelines with which to live. In...

Dictionaries define a merism as a reference to something by its polar extremes, as in "we searched high and low" For example I searched...

A Cliché is what you write or say when you can't think of a new way to express an old idea. A Cliché is a tired phrase or an old way of...

How to cope with words you haven't met before is a big problem in English because the ways that words are spoken do not always reflect...

When you listen to people speaking English , you start to notice that they stress certain sounds in words. Sometimes in different...

What is a synecdoche? It is a figure of speech in which, most often, a part of something is used to refer to its whole. Let's have a look...

What makes English different to many languages is in how thoughts and feelings are expressed. In English the use of idioms is widespread...

The key to increasing fluency is speaking more often. Who would have guessed? But what do you do if you don't have a native speaker to...

As mentioned in previous posts, when getting to grips with a new language, repetition is the key. Some words in English can get used a...

When getting to grips with a new language, repetition is the key. Once you learn a new word or phrase, try to use it straight away. Then...