Sentence examples for figurative literal from inspiring English sources
You notice these metaphors because Hathaway and Taymor take such pains to materialise and substantiate them, making the figurative literal at every opportunity.
They then listened to decomposable and nondecomposable idiomatic expressions presented in context before performing a multiple-choice task (figurative, literal, and contextual responses).
One promising suggestion is that it can be very difficult to distinguish figurative from literal content, particularly when the figures employed have little presentational force.
Not figurative tears, literal tears.
His description was both figurative and literal.
Such speech acts may be figurative or literal.
Explosions, figurative and literal, are obviously in the offing.
But its premise takes the genre to a new high, figurative and literal.
(The "dead" of that "dead-end" may be figurative or literal).
And in the figurative and literal sense, it is getting stood up.
This is both figurative and literal, she continued: "I'm about 5-foot-4 1/2.
