Explain briefly what figurative language is, according to this lesson.

I don't know about your lesson, but figurative language is a type of symbolic language authors often use to make their text more literary. It includes using symbolic words which are not supposed to be understood literally, but rather thought about them until their true meaning is unearthed. Figurative language often uses figures of speech such as metaphors, personifications, similes, onomatopoeias, etc.