Literal language means exactly what it says, while figurative language uses similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification to describe something often through comparison with something different. See the examples below. Literal Descriptions.
The yellow wallpaper is driven by the narrators sense that wallpaper is a text she must interpret that its something effecting her
Homesick is a memoir about growing up with a mentally ill immigrant mother in suburban Toronto. It is one family’s chronicle, a story of chaos, confusion and challenges in adversarial circumstances. The work is divided into three sections. Home is where the Heartache Lives deals with a childhood spent witnessing an acrimonious arranged marriage. You Can’t Go Home Again covers the twenty years the narrator spent living in British Columbia while attempting to maintain a distance from the immediate family. Homesick details the narrator’s return to Toronto. Themes of home, language and cultural identity are explored alongside the experience of what it means to witness a devastating disease like schizophrenia and what it feels like to endure a chronically ill family membe
