Figurative and Literal Language

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Figurative language versus literal language

Introduction

Figurative language versus literal language is a differentiation in traditional system for examining language. Literal language concerns with words which actually do not vary from their determined, fixed, defined and specified meaning and we can also addressed literal language like that a word to word meaning and saying is called literal meaning. Talking about figurative language which deviates and concerns to that type of group of words who amplify and exaggerate or enlarge the usual and common meanings of that certain words and figurative language is the involvement of some sort of analogy words which has similar concepts or some contexts and sometimes might be involve overstatements and if according to learning point of view figurative language can be hard and unmanageable for the students who are disable or not normal; students having some disorder or having disabilities get more confused when this figurative language is applied.

Therefore these alterations are basically known as figures of speech and for the children figures of speech or figurative language is very abstract.

Functions

The poetries inclines to use figurative language higher than prose because if we compare it with a prose so then it is proposed more to emotions, appeal and detailed described things in visualizing or imaginative tracks rather than to give their accurate and precise descriptions.

Examples

As it is rightly said that words in figurative language's expression denote what they do not mean according to dictionary or common usage while literal language cannot because many layers are added to them or in the meaning. For example "this park is thirsty" and which is a part of figurative because park own a literal meaning and the park is not alive or neither he is a human that he want to drink nor he feels...