"Figurative language creates comparisons by linking the senses and the concrete to abstract ideas. Words or phrases are used in a non-literal way for particular effect, for example simile, metaphor, personification." (education.nsw)
Basically, figurative language uses comparisons by linking different senses (sight, touch, etc) by using different phrases as non-literal ideas.
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