a statement or phrase not intended to be understood literally — is figurative. You say your hands are frozen, or you are so hungry you could eat a horse. That's being figurative.
A yellow cake is a figurative term for uranium ore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_and_figurative_language Whenever you describe something by comparing it to something else, you are using figurative language.
A bag of nerves is a figurative term for a very nervous person.
A snooze is a short period of sleep, or a figurative term for something which is boring.
Figurative language that shows things as having the same meaning
This is a metaphor. She is not actually a bombshell, and there is no comparative term (as, like).
A cab off the rank is a figurative term for something which fits at a certain point in a sequence.
The term for words that have more than the literal meaning is "figurative language." This includes figures of speech like metaphors, similes, and idioms which convey meanings beyond their literal interpretation.
The literary term in "had taken time by the forelock" is an idiom. This phrase is a figurative expression meaning to seize an opportunity promptly or act decisively.
A word that can be interpreted in a non literal meaning is said to have a figurative meaning.
A word that can be interpreted in a non literal meaning is said to have a figurative meaning.
no dialogue is not figurative language because figurative language is similies, metephors and idioms and personification