Figurative speech uses words in non literal meanings. For example:
The cars were advised to avoid the bottle neck at Richardson Road.
There wasn't really a bottle neck at Richardson Road we use bottle neck to describe the situation when cars or something is jammed can't move.
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departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical
The opposite of figurative is literal.
Metaphor
representative, indicative, figurative
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