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How does figurative language affect the meaning of a work?
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How does figurative language affect the meaning of a work? I am just wondering how figurative language like alliteration, metaphors, hyperbole, etc. help with the meaning of a writing because i have a hard time writing about this in rhetorical analysis essays. 4 Answers
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Figurative language uses figures of speech to convey unique images and create some sort of special effect or impression. Figurative language has the effect of enriching a reader's literary experience. Poets often create images or enhance meaning by comparing one thing to another for special effect. A most important figure of speech is the Metaphor. In a metaphor, a poet writes that X is Y. Readers understand that we are not to take the comparison literally, but that the metaphor helps us to see X in a new way. While similes are used in poetry principally for artistic effect, in formal writing they serve not only to increase interest but also to clarify an idea in an imaginative way, an analogy usually identifies several points of similarity and is created for the purpose of conceptual clarity.