Sei Shonagon's Use Of Figurative Language

Sei Shonagon writes excerpts 110 and 109 of the Heian period to explain how she feels about the relationship between family and friends, Shonagon uses rhetoric such as syntax, rhetorical appeal, figurative language, and diction, resulting in the audience understanding how families in the elite class of the Heian period were not always as it seem and that friends were closer than family