figurative
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Figurative language: language that suggests special meanings or effects.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Figurative sculpture, even created with nontraditional approaches and materials, is such a broad and varied category as to be almost meaningless.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2019
The conversations inspired Furlani to apply to the Frink School of Figurative Sculpture in Longton, England, in 1997.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2018
Check the flat file for Lester Johnson, whose Figurative Expressionist slashes still wow.
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2016
Figurative and indirect language has suggestive force, because it does not make statements that can be directly disputed.
From The Art of Public Speaking by Carnagey, Dale
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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