Figurative language is similes, metaphors, and personification.
The stench of the rotting wood was a putrid as a rotting corpse
The Apache are only one of many tribes that inhabited North America when
the Europeans arrived. Others included the Sioux, the Cherokee, Shawnee,
Pawnee, Mohawk, Seneca, Cheyenne, Owasso, Oglala, Cayuga, Onandoga,
Iroquois, and many more.
an evaluation of one's performance in an academic subject