Asunder<span> is an adverb that </span>means<span> “into separate pieces.” So if you've torn your ex's love letter </span>asunder, you've forcefully ripped it into separate pieces — and rightly so.Asunder<span> comes from the Old English phrase on sundran, which </span>means<span> “into separate places.”</span>
During the slave trade europeans saw african slaves as cargo traded for profit, not people. In result slaves were stuffed and piled in uninhabitable spaces below deck where they deficated and slept in the same place. Food and water were scarce, death and disease were high.
Figurative language is when you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning.
For example writing a hyperbole is a way to use figurative language.
