President Donald Trump’s political speeches recently served as a testing ground for the capabilities and limitations of large ...

From the moment humans began painting, they've been wrestling with the body. The bird-like figure discovered in the caves of Lascaux, France, looks nothing like the broad-backed male drying his face ...

A crucial component of natural language processing (NLP) is simile detection. NLP seeks to improve comprehension of figurative language, particularly similes which utilize the phrases “like” or “as” ...

Metaphors tend to convey stronger images than similes. That’s because metaphors indicate that something “is” something else rather than simply being “like” it. For example, “Joe is ice” tends to send ...

Throughout history, metaphors and figurative language have been used in health and social care to aid communication, visualise illness and conceptualise thinking. This article, the second in our ...

Once you're familiar with them, you'll likely notice that simile examples abound in everyday speech, writing, song lyrics and even advertising slogans. Here, we'll take a look at some simile examples, ...