0 (of words and phrases) used not with their basic meaning but with a more imaginative meaning, in order to create a special effect -- （词或短语）比喻的
1 (of a painting, drawing, etc.) representing something as it really looks, rather than in an abstract way -- （油画、素描等）形象的，具象的
But in this instance, the allusion is purely figurative.
The transgressions that representation licenses are predicated on the representational - that is, figurative - nature of those transgressions.
Casting aside figurative painting, the visual artists tended to embrace installation art and irony.
These could well be useful to researchers interested in figurative language.
However, the figurative, or programmatic, music of the previous century tried to bring into the concert all stylised birds, storms and galloping horses.
Thus, the traditional view cannot account for the fact that context actually facilitates initial comprehension of figurative language.
This forms the basis of the radius of creativity - a figurative space demonstrating the range of the likely creative possibles of an individual agent.
The kind of topic transition with which the production of a figurative expression is associated in our corpus occurs in 4:27-33.
