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The combination of literal and figurative meanings apply to Impromptu is a a lovely woman: a dangerous alliance.
Figurative language is when you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal, and literal meaning. In literal language, words do have the exact sense of their meaning.
In this case, a lovely woman would be a sweet woman, with a lot of sweet nothing. But then we have that a lovely woman means a dangerous alliance. If everything is pink color, then why would be a lovely woman a dangerous alliance? It's a good example of figurative meaning.
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Presumably the "Wise man" thought that the person who actually had suffered a nervous breakdown shouldn't be stimulated in any way so that is why he counselled Gilman to "never touch pen, brush or pencil again". In fact, she didn't follow his advice and through her creative work she came back to life again. From myself having written a book, I know that being involved in creating something is very therapeutic and good for the self esteem.
