Speaking of figures of speech in the Bible, Scripture is full of all sorts of them:
– similes
– metaphors
– implications
– parables
– mysteries
– allegories
– myths
– visions
– signs
– types
– shadows
– examples
– images and imagery
– enigmas
– symbols
– codes
– idioms
– poetry
– euphemisms
– sarcasm
– irony
– puns and other plays on words
– hyperbole and other exaggerations
– anthropomorphisms or personifications
– condescensions
– diminutives
– association or metonymy
– appellations
– compound associations
– near associations
– circumlocutions or periphrasis
– paradoxes
– numerology and possibly gematria
– omitted nouns
– omitted verbs
– unfinished sentences
– omission or non-sequence
(To name just a few, I could go on)
Remember that just because a passage seems like it should be interpreted literally in Scripture doesn’t necessarily mean that it definitely should be.