Well for one, characterisation is how a writer chooses to reveal a characters personality in a story, through things like physical appearance (shiny hair, blue eyes, nice smile, ect.) and through virtues and faults (brave, attentive, smart - egotistical, bitter, evil.)
Figurative language is basically how you'd describe said chracterisations, through things like personification, hyperbole, metaphors, similes, ect.
So with that being said, figurative language can help characterise a monster by doing more than just saying it's a monster; figurative language can make it /feel/ like a monster to the reader. Figurative language can turn the monster '3-D' (for lack of better words), by saying it has long claws, stinky breath, vicious fangs, a horrifying growl, ect.
My favourite example of figurative language is actually in the childrens book "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak, because it uses simple figurative language. Maurice Sendak describes the wild things as so: "They roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.'
Anyway, I hope this helped !! :-)
Base on my research, the reason why the Expository writing include more than just a fact, its because, it also need and evidence that could support the fact. I hope you are satisfied with my answer and feel free to ask for more if you have questions and further clarifications
I felt fear drowning my senses, everything froze, I couldn't move a finger,....Yet I... I prayed for calm, wisdom and strength and concentrated on improving my mental state so that I could win this moment. I felt my energy draining away, my courage dying, but I didn't want to end like this, I needed to do something for myself, I needed to find myself and recognize myself. Therefore, with great difficulty, I got up, took a deep breath and decided to try one more time. Very scared, but determined to give myself one more chance, I forced myself to step outside.
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