what is figurative language
Figurative language is the use of words in an unusual or imaginative manner.Often figurative language involves the use of a metaphor, a simile, personification, hyperbole, idiom, a euphemism, and pun.However, as the term figurative language also covers unusual or imaginative word constructions (and not just word meanings), it also includes alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia.igurative language is the use of words in an unusual or imaginative manner.