(88) We're now in a position to draw a distinction between literal comparisons and figurative comparisons, similes, that accords with the idea that to speak figuratively is to speak so as to stand corrected.
Figurative comparisons invite a different kind of correction than figurative predications do.
Graphical Abstract Figurative representation of the comparison of AgNPs and AgPyNPs in macrophage RAW264.7 cells in terms of cytotoxicity and immune response.
Using the sample descriptions in the article as mentor texts, compose a two or three-sentence description of your favorite food, using figurative language and unusual comparisons.
She oversimplifies the art world as dominated by abstraction long before it was, but fails to draw comparisons with successful figurative painters like Edward Hopper.
"His early paintings redefined British art and his later works stand comparison with the great figurative painters of any period".
A simile, a figurative comparative statement, is simply a comparison that manifestly requires and therefore routinely receives this kind of adjusted truth-conditional interpretation.
The figurative term 'ANC channel' may be illustrated by comparison with a creek lined by reed beds expanding into the water and not in the sense of a waterway clearly separated from the 'mainland' by a concrete embankment.
