A figurative language is defined, "Words or expression with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation." These examples may help you on solving the problem you need assistance with.
1)All right, the sky misses the sun at night.
2)Her head was spinning from all the new information.
3)The poorest man is the richest, and the rich are poor.
4)I've told you a million times to clean your room!
5)I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
However, there are types of figurative language such as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, symbolism.
2 transcendentalism and gothic short stories are of american romanticism
Characters affect theme in terms of conflict and dilemma. If a conflict or dilemma of a given story was altered then the story would take a changed path. Therefore, there would be alteration in the actions of the characters which at the same time would transform the plot of the story.