Comma What?

My father had left our house in the midst of a fight between Lindsey, and my mother. My mother was trying to get Lindsey to go with her to the Y to swim. Without thinking Lindsey had blared, "I'd rather die!" at the top of her lungs. My father watched as my mother froze, then burst fleeing to their bedroom to wail behind the door. He quietly tucked his notebook in his jacket pocket, took the car keys off the hook by the back door and snuck out.

Figurative Language

Figurative language- a distinction in traditional systems for analyzing language. Figuartive language refers to words and groups of words.

Figure of speech a use of a word that diverges from its normal reading or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meanings of words in it such as a metaphor, simile, or personification.

Imagery- is used in literature to refer to descriptive that evokes sensory experience.

Trope- a language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.

All four terms are used everyday.