0 (of words and phrases) used not with their basic meaning but with a more imaginative meaning, in order to create a special effect: --
1 (of a painting, drawing, etc.) representing something as it really looks, rather than in an abstract way --
2 (of words and phrases) used not with their basic meaning but to suggest part of that meaning: --
The next three chapters are concerned with various forms of figurative language including metaphors and similes, idioms, and proverbs.
One is the focus on the figurative content of landscape art in relation to wider cultural discourses.
Beyond this, we can ask what figurative sculpture gave abstract architects, and why they used it.
Constituting a new nation and defining its culture meant, among other things, mapping its figurative geography, delineating the nation's boundaries.
To those who supported the ideals of state socialism and who worked in figurative styles this was not a problem.
Recipients' minimal agreements in response to the figurative summaries (sympathy tokens, etc.) conjoin those substantive and procedural agreements.
Just what that organized practice, and what activities figurative expressions may be employed to perform in conversation, is the focus of this inquiry.
The kind of topic transition with which the production of a figurative expression is associated in our corpus occurs in 4:27-33.