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Content: Figurative language refers to language not used literally—it is used
                     abstractly, indirectly, and often evocatively. The evening is spread out against the sky
                        like a patient etherized upon a table. Here we have an evening (a thing), spreading (an
                     action), a patient (thing), etherizing (an action), and a table (thing). But an evening
                     is not
                     a drugged patient spread out upon a table, perhaps ready to be operated upon; this
                     description
                     cannot be literally true (there is no patient, no etherizing, no table, and evenings
                     don’t
                     literally spread out against skies); this language is used figuratively, and is highly
                     suggestive, and it revolves around a 
                     simile(like). Are certain words used in unusual, non-literal, non-standard, exaggerated, or
                           metaphoricalways? What effect do these figures of
                              speechhave? Which words or phrases are used literally (they denote something
                           literal) and which are used figuratively (they connote something
                           figurative)? How does figurative language suggest a certain meaning?