Reading skill: Understanding figurative languageAuthors often use figures of speech, or figurative language, to make their writing lively and memorable. Effective readers, know how to recognize and interpret them, figures of speech can help you understand the author’s meaning more deeply and think about ideas in new ways. Comparisons, personification and symbolism etc. are all figurative languages.
Galileo was the first scientist to start using his eyes both figuratively and literally.Organ of sight Mind’s eye, Observation capacity