1) Allegorical 2) Allusive 3) Analogical 4) Figural 5) Metaphoric 6) Metaphorical 7) Metonymic 8) Metonymical 9) Nonliteral 10) Representational 11) Representative 12) Synecdochic 13) Synecdochical
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1) Allegorical 2) Analogical 3) Extended 4) French word used in English 5) Metaphoric 6) Metaphorical 7) Metonymic 8) Metonymical 9) Nonliteral 10) Not literal 11) Poetic 12) Rhetorical 13) Symbolic 14) Synecdochic 15) Synecdochical 16) Tropical 17) Using figures of speech
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• (a.) Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description. • (a.) Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions. • (a.) Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2. • (a.) Representing by a figur...
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(of a painting, drawing, etc.) representing something as it really looks, rather than in an abstract way.
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Fig'ur·a·tive adjective [ Latin
figurativus : confer French
figuratif . See
Figurative .]
1. Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative. « This, they will say, was
figurative , and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to sh...
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Figurative is a term used to refer to any form of modern or contemporary art that retains strong references to the real world. It is used to describe Landscape and Architectural painting subjects, but more often it is associated with the human figure. In a general sense figurative also applies retrospectively to all art before abstract art.
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referring to the human form or shape: reproduction of elements as they exist in life, as opposed to abstraction
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Any piece of artwork that represents the form of a human, or an animal, or a thing, is figurative art.
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[
adj] - (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal
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a term to describe artwork representing the form of a human, animal, or thing.
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Since the arrival of abstract art the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world and particularly to the human figure. In a general sense figurative also applies retrospectively to all art before abstract art. Modern figurative art can be seen as distinct from modern realism in ...
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nonliteral adjective (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; `figurative language`
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of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, esp. a metaphor; metaphorical; not literal: a figurative expression. · metaphorically so called: His remark was a figurative boomerang. · abounding in or fond of figures of speech: Elizabethan poetry is highly figurative. · representing by means of a figure or likeness, as in drawing ...
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Any use of a word in a non-literal sense, e.g. at the foot of the mountain where foot is employed figuratively to indicate the bottom of the mountain. Figurative usage is the source of the second meaning of polysemous words.
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[Literary terms] not literal
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[SAT terms] not literal
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[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] not literal
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[Common core terms] not literal
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