The Treasure of Lemon Brown' is a novel written by Walter Dean Myers. He was an African-American author who was born in 1937. In this story, a boy named Greg Ridley meets the former blues singer, Lemon Brown, in an old, abandoned house and learns a valuable lesson about life and its treasures.
Figurative language is used for expressions and figures of speech. An example would be "It's raining cats and dogs." Literal language is used more for formal language. An example would be "It's raining very hard."