Its raining cats and dogs! Or the thunder roared in the evening! Figurative language is everywhere. Figurative language is language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. There are many different types of figurative language for example, metaphors, similes, hyperboles, personifications, imagery and many more. In “The Fish”, by Elizabeth Bishop, a man is fishing and catches an old fish and is describing the way it looks, and could tell that the old fish had been through a lot and he lets the fish go. Bishop uses two types of figurative language which are imagery, and similes. She uses these because she wants the reader to see it also or picture it. Imagery is visually descriptive. Bishop
