Figurative Languange

Figurative language is a language that goes past just the literal and into metaphors, similes, personifications, hyperboles, exaggerations, alliterations, straw-mans, and on and on. This language is a great way for the writer to produce a vivid and powerful image for their meaning. These words provide meaning in themselves and give an emotional response that ordinary words couldn't do. The language opens up an idea and leads the reader to interpretation of their own. The language is playful and easy to get carried away with into a world of tasteful or untasteful words. But, its up for the reader to decide. Their effect is important and their meaning more important, but its the way we view and think about the world that establishes these relationships among different objects, things, and ideas. This is an elaborate language and is often used to strengthen the writers ideas and support, to evoke emotions of depth, and to invite the reader into meaning. In Pride and Prejudice, Austen uses metaphors and hyperboles to strengthen her argument against certain people and create them as fools. Her metaphors not only display certain follies but highlight and exasterbate them further. We are opened up to her world through figurative language and we even begin to possess certain feelings so close and known to Austen herself. Her words helped up get closer to her meaning as well as adding richness to her story.