Figurative Language is usually a comparison, an exaggeration or alterations to make a linguistic point. They are commonly found in Poetry, although they too can be found in Prose and NonFiction writing. After briefly searching the types of figurative languages on the World Wide Web, I came up with a list of five different types of figurative languages and six different types of constructions and combinations. The five different examples I chose from the book are from T. S. Eliot's, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (page 250- 253). The first type I found off the bat was, Simile. The example I chose for that one was: “When the evening is spread out against the sky, Like a patient etherised upon a table;”(Line 2-3), due to the use of like
