Figurative language: Difference between revisions

An obvious and intentional exaggeration,  an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”  Language that describes something as better or worse than it really is.

  Pictures or photographs, language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind, pictures of people or things in a work of art

The creation of words that imitate natural sounds.  The use of words whose sound suggests the sense.  The naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it.

An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own, a form of language that is spoken in a particular area and that uses some of its own words, grammar, and pronunciations, a style or form of expression that is characteristic of a particular person, type of art, etc.,  an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either grammatically (as no, it wasn't me) or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (as ride herd on for “supervise”).

An action, object, event, etc., that expresses or represents a particular idea or quality, a letter, group of letters, character, or picture that is used instead of a word or group of words,  something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance; especially :  a visible sign of something invisible (, the lion is a symbol of courage),  an arbitrary or conventional sign used in writing or printing relating to a particular field to represent operations, quantities, elements, relations, or qualities, an object or act representing something in the unconscious mind that has been repressed (,phallic symbols),  an act, sound, or object having cultural significance and the capacity to excite or objectify a response