To understand what figurative language is, it is important to start with a working definition of literal language. Literal language refers to a phrase or sentence that is to be taken at face value to mean exactly what it says.For example, if a sentence reads, he went outside the box, that means the man was in a box and went outside of that area to another space.iteral language refers to a phrase or sentence that is to be taken at face value to mean exactly what it says. For example, if a sentence reads, he went outside the box, that means the man was in a box and went outside of that area to another space.
The Huns were a nomadic group of people who are known to have lived in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia between the 1st century AD and the 7th century.
1) The Anglo-Saxons were immigrants. The people we call Anglo-Saxons were actually immigrants from northern Germany and southern Scandinavia. Bede, a monk from Northumbria writing some centuries later, says that they were from some of the most powerful and warlike tribes in Germany. Bede names three of these tribes: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. There were probably many other peoples who set out for Britain in the early fifth century, however. Batavians, Franks and Frisians are known to have made the sea crossing to the stricken province of âBritanniaâ.