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December 13, 2011

Figurative Language affects Tone and Mood

The figurative language can set a mood and tone in a piece of writing in many different ways. It can produce a sad, happy, loving, hating, jealous or even indifferent mood to a work. Figurative language can be used to replace a lot of descriptions. Instead of saying, "everybody was sad in thanksgiving", you can enrich the sentence by using a simile; "thanksgiving was as sad as a veteran without a leg" or, "the environment was as sad as a tree with no leaves". See how the environment was completely sad?

This was only one example with a simile. The other forms of figurative language can also work with many of the cases. So you only have to use figurative language and a clever play with words to enrich your papers and pieces of writing completely.

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