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.'
The gray cat symbolizes loss of hope and sadness. Gold represents eternity and love. The Combs stated Jim's love for Della. Christmas is the whole setting throughout the story it is the holiday of hope and gift<span> giving also the Three </span>Wise Men<span>or The </span>Magi<span>.</span>
The name of the ride, Killer Bees, as well as the graphic portrayal of bees attacking people and pets illustrated on the walls and passenger cars are in no way appropriate for children.
Context clues- around the difficult/unusual word, there may be hints to what the unusual word means. using context clues helps in figuring out a word's definition due to the nearby clues in the text.
therefore, <span>If you do not understand a word in a sentence, you can look at other words around it for ______ ______.
</span><span>If you do not understand a word in a sentence, you can look at other words around it for context clues.</span>
