Figurative language refers to certain figures of speech used by writers as a means of
describing something in a non-literal way. Figurative language may useto depict a person or
scene more vividly. Some examples would include similes (in which a thing is compared to another
thing, to which it has some similarities) or metaphors (in which a thing is said to actually
be another thing, which it isn't, in a literal sense).
We can find several examples of figurative language in this story. In the opening
paragraph, for example, Faulkner describes the interest the whole town had in the funeral of
Miss , because they perceived her as "a fallen monument." This is an example of: Emily
is not literally a monument, but this description gives some indication of Emily's standing
within the town. It suggests that she has been part of the abric of the town for a very long
time and the idea of her falling, or dying, is akin to the loss of a stone structure. It also
leads us to...
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