What is an example of figurative language?

Answer 1

Types of figurative language include simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, cliches, and idioms.

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In figurative language (as opposed to literal language), images and symbols are used to give enriched meaning. For example, the phrase, "the eagle flies with the dove," isn't talking about birds, but the eagle represents America and the dove represents peace. So the phrase is figurative language about America promoting peace instead of war.

Figurative language includes hyperbole, metaphor, simile, and paradoxes.

Answer 2

Figurative language is speech or writing that departs from literal meaning of words in order to create a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech. Here is an example as you requested.

Dealing with the federal government is worse than jumping through hoops when you need to prove something to them. No one in the federal government has any horse sense or knows what the left or right hand are doing.

The figurative phrases are "jumping through the hoops" and "horse sense" and "what the left hand or right hand are doing".

Translation of the paragraph: Dealing with the federal government is very difficult when you need to prove you have the facts they need to know to get social security benefits. None of the departments communicate with each other or use common sense when I show them my pay stubs to prove I worked for twenty years.

Answer 3

Slower than molasses