Answer: Meg Murry lives in an unnamed town on the planet Earth. Though we know it's autumn, we do not know the exact year in which the story events take place. some examples of figurative langauge are "Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own." "From the shoulders slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, or light upon water, or poetry."
Explanation: this is all i know