Which phrase best defines “figurative language”?
writing that is meant to be imaginative and vivid rather than literal
words that create mental pictures of something seen, heard, tasted, smelled, or touched
poems that include many different types of rhymes and rhythms
sentences that are long and reference historical and literary figures

writing that is meant to be imaginative and vivid rather than literal  

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is there an image you meant to add?

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chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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