Three key aspects of figurative language are similes, metaphors and personification.
Times,Sunday Times
Can you use more than one element of figurative language in a sentence?
Times,Sunday Times
Perhaps most necessarily, poetry specializes in the extremity called metaphor-or, more broadly, in the extremity of figurative language.
Christianity Today
In addition, the abundant use of figurative language indicates that many proverbs express things more suggestively than directly and universally.
Christianity Today
Sensuous description and figurative language are brought into consonance with natural wonder.
The Times Literary Supplement