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Figurative language and colloquial language are not appropriate for academic writing.

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True. With too much figurative language (for example, a lot of similes or metaphors) it could be hard to understand. Colloquial language would mean adding slang and not attempting to be formal, which would not be appropriate for academic writing.
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