Figurative language

• Figurative language is language used for descriptive effect, often to illustrate or imply ideas indirectly.
• A simile uses the word like or as

  to compare two seemingly unlike things.
• A metaphor directly compares two seemingly unlike things

  without using like or as.
• Personification is a figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human qualities.
• context including when and where a text was

  written