A figurative language is like a saying for example piece of cake, the sky misses the sun at night and she was happy as a dophin.
The Tell-Tale Heart is a hard poem. Figurative Language uses figures of speech to make a work more effective, persuasive, or interesting. This can be done with metaphors (comparisons NOT using like or as), similes (comparisons using like or as), allusions (indirect reference), personification (giving human traits to something that isn't human), hyperbole (exaggeration), onamonapia (words that mean sounds like thump, smack, whack), or oxymoron (complete opposites like jumbo shrimp). Specifically in tell-tale heart, hyperbole is used to express how paranoid he was (I heard sounds from Heaven...I heard sounds from Hell). Simile was used (His eye was like the eye of a vulture). Imagery (appealing to the senses) is also used when he talks about hearing the thumping over and over in his ears.
