Firurative Language: Writting or speech not intended to convey literal meaning, usually imaginative and vivid.
"Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree."
(Hughes "Song for a Black Girl" Lines 13 and 14)
This is an example of figurative language because it says that love is naked. Love is not something that you can give a color to. And it does not have a shape. This is not the only thing that is being given a human characteristic, the tree is being described as something naked. A tree could not be naked because it does not wear clothes.
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