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☆☆☆☆☆Language that goes beyond the ordinary meaning of words. Figurative language is different from literal language in that the former uses all kinds of techniques including metaphor, simile, and so on to get its message across whilst the latter (literal) uses straightforward factual language. Figurative speech is desirable for novel writing because it is more interesting but literal is more appropriate in an official document and in academic writing.
Non-literal or figurative language refers to words, and groups of words, that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component words.
The word root plac means "to please."
synesthesia
Dark Red Juice -Apex
to offer the reader a surprising way of experiencing the senses
consonant sounds tend to be stronger than the vowel sounds.Apex.
Poetry that does not conform to a traditional structure
The word comb comes from a Greek Word meaning "tooth"
The school adopted a new policy
It compares the experience of one sense to another sense
The repetition of vowel sounds - APEX
the allusion will seem ironic or absurd
both are literature that seeks to express a point
