The past tense, or simple past tense, of the indicative is used in Spanish to express actions that began and ended in the past and took place in a timely manner or in a limited time space, or that interrupted another course of action also past and that It is expressed in the past imperfect.
Example:
El año pasado LLEGÓ una chica nueva a clase. Era china, de Pekín. Con un mapa nos EXPLICÓ todo sobre su país y su ciudad.
What literary element is used in this example? She said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us, but we can't hit them alone. What was the speaker's intention to use figurative language?
