“A House Called Tomorrow” - Alberto Rios Look for:
✓ Polysyndeton - repetition of conjunctions
(and, but, for, or, nor)
✓ Unique or interesting diction (word choice)
✓ Anaphora - repetition of a particular
phrase
✓ Just of the dash (-) and the colon (:)
✓ Personification
✓ Metaphor
Symbols
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are you kidding? from that description of two mansions, you can't figure out which one is bleak and desolate? maybe you should consider looking those words up in a dictionary, if you don't know what they mean already.

figurative language is a resource that fiction writers use to make better descriptions of what they want to write about or express. they can improve their stories, as they can elaborate more vivid and colorful sentences. this way, the reader will be able to have more detailed images in his/her mind.

places, objects, people and even feelings or emotions can be described with a lot of detail to metaphors, similes and personifications. making different kinds of comparisons to make a description more specific, as well as assigning human qualities to non-human objects (and vice-versa) can be very useful for science fiction writers.  

on the other hand, alliterations allow writers to elaborate more entertaining and creative sentences. it consists in using a sequence of words that start with the same consonant letter. they can be used to emphasize something important the writer wants to express, or just as a fun literary device.

the answer is: poetry.