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=Why do we use figurative language/= | |||
Authors use figurative language because they want to convey creativity. Creative writers like authors use metaphor, analogy and symbols to stir the reader's thoughts and bring out the emotion and perceptive that can't be uttered by the world's dictionary meaning alone. Figurative language is also a rhetorical tool. | |||