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It's not figurative it is literal
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Literal and figurative language is a distinction in traditional systems for analyzing language. Literal language refers to words that do not deviate from their defined meaning. Figurative language refers to words, and groups of words, that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component words. Figurative language may involve analogy to similar concepts or other contexts, and may involve exaggerations. These alterations result in figures of speech.
Figurative language is a word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language
it uses figurative language but it also uses literal language
LITERAL: keep your hands on the handle of your plow FIGURATIVE: pay attention to what you're doing
To blow something away has several meanings depending on the context. It can mean a literal explosion, like blow the enemy away in a war with a bomb. It can also be figurative like blowing away an exam by making an excellent score on it.
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Literal: his brain was in a different place Figurative: not paying attention
To blow one's whistle is "siffler" in French in the literal sense of producing a whistling sound. In the figurative sense of "denouncing inappropriate behaviour / expose misconduct", it is translated "alerter / donner l'alerte"
Figurative means not literal. Figurative language refers to things like metaphors and similes.
Figurative language is language that refers or implies or flat-out doesn't mean what it seems to mean. "Kicked the bucket" is figurative language for "died."Literal language means exactly what it looks like.
Impromptu text is written without much forethought and therefore may employ elements of literal and figurative language. Figurative language could be the use of an expression in the piece and literal language may be facts provided in the piece.
It is not figurative. It is completely literal.
It's not figurative it is literal