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A word isn't figurative. It's the use of the word that's figurative.

For example, blanket is a concrete noun with a literal meaning. So is snow. But when you say "a blanket of snow," that's figurative, because it isn't really a blanket. It's an implied comparison of the layer or coating of snow with a blanket because the snow lies over the earth the way a blanket lies over a bed. It is speaking of the snow as if it were some other thing--namely, a blanket. That's what makes it figurative--the opposite of literal.

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