Figurative language is things you use in literacy like--- Simile (SIH-muh-lee): a comparison between two or more things using the words like or as. example: "I move fast like a cheetah on the...
Towards the end when Leper talks about what happen at the tree before Finny broke his leg :
Leper says ; " like golden machine-gun fire . "
" as black as death - "
" they moved like an engine . "