Title: What Is Figurative Language? Definition and Examples
Headings: What Is Figurative Language? Definition and Examples
What Is Figurative Language? Definition and Examples
What is figurative language?
10 common types of figurative language
Similes
Metaphors
Cliché
Hyperbole
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Oxymoron
Euphemism
Allusion
Famous examples of figurative language from literature
Using figurative language in your writing
Marika Hirsch, Knowledge Base Writer at Wix

Content: It’s a million degrees outside, what are we going to do?!” Of course, it’s not literally a million degrees outside, but by using figurative language I have better expressed the dread and urgency of the situation we are in. Figurative language has a fundamental impact on readers. By creating new connections between concepts, images or objects that have little to no original link, readers discover new insights and see a more vivid or imaginative picture in their heads. Figurative language is also useful in explaining an abstract concept by comparing it to something else that readers can better relate to. It can transform the seemingly ordinary into something significant. This is why authors of all genres employ figures of speech so abundantly. In literature and poetry, writers often use them to pinpoint an exact feeling or mood they would otherwise fail to express with more conventional wording. Politicians and debaters use figurative language to argue and persuade. Novelists use it to draw readers into the world they’ve created.