- Look up
figurative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Figurative may
refer to:
Figurative analogy, a
comparison between things that are not
alike but...
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Figurative art,
sometimes written as figurativism,
describes artwork (particularly
paintings and sculptures) that is
clearly derived from real
object sources...
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Literal and
figurative language is a
distinction within some
fields of
language analysis, in
particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics.
Literal language...
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preoccupations in all
areas of
Western culture at that time.
Abstract art, non-
figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all
closely related...
- A
figurative palanquin connected with the
totem of its
owner is a
special kind of
litter used in the
Greater Accra Region in Ghana.
These palanquins called...
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Figurative Constructivism is an art
movement that
arose prin****lly in Germany. The term was
introduced by
Franz Seiwert in 1929
using the
phrase "gegenständlichen...
- Merism:
referring to a
whole by
enumerating some of its parts. Metalepsis:
figurative speech is used in a new context. Metaphor: an
implied comparison between...
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approximately the
beginning of the 15th to the end of the 16th century. This new
figurative language is
linked to a new way of
thinking about humankind and the world...
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Young Figuratives was the
title of two
exhibitions of new
contemporary art by
young German painters. This
first exhibition was
shown under this heading...
- A
figurative analogy is a
comparison about two
things that are not
alike but
share only some
common property. On the
other hand, a
literal analogy is about...