How Figurative Language Builds Mood/Tone/Feeling

Figurative language is a way to express what you feel in non-literal ways. Some of them might seem not so "figurative" such as repetition, alliteration and assonance because they are just how you organized letters and words in a sentence. Tone and mood are created in a piece of literature by figurative language, for example; when you use metaphors and similes you are comparing one thing to another in two different ways. The way you compare this (good or bad) sets the mood and the feeling in a story. If all the story was told in literal format nothing would have sense and it would be really boring. Figurative language (meaning = NOT LITERAL) makes the story have sense of humor in different ways and it can tell the reader what type of genre it falls into to. Just because all the figurative language stories have their own specific traits.