Figurative may refer to:
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Figurative analogy, a comparison between things that are not alike but do share some common property
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Figurative art
Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract a ...
, representational artwork
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Literal and figurative language
The distinction between literal and figurative language exists in all natural languages; the phenomenon is studied within certain areas of language analysis, in particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics.
*Literal language is the usage of wor ...
, a distinction within language analysis
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Neo-figurative art, an expressionist revival art movement
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