For Figurative Language we have terms and definitions in 3 topics. The topics are Drama, Poetry and Public Speaking.

Figurative Language (Drama)

A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. Examples include hyperbole or exaggeration, litotes or understatement, simile and metaphor, which employ comparison, and synecdoche and metonymy, in which a part of a thing stands for the whole.

Figurative Language (Poetry)

Writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) such as metaphor, simile, and irony. Figurative language uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning. "The black bat night has flown" is figurative, with the metaphor comparing night and a bat. "Night is over" says the same thing without figurative language. No real bat is or has been on the scene, but night is like a bat because it is dark.

Figurative Language (Public Speaking)

The use of words in certain surprising and unusual ways in order to magnify the power of their meaning.

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