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All metaphors are figurative (cannot be interpreted literally). If you say 'Mary is a block of ice', you take it as meaning 'Mary is an unemotional, perhaps cruel, person'. So metaphor is a figure of speech where words (here, 'block of ice') have figurative meaning, that is mean something different than they literally say.
Whether in the Hebrew of the Old Testament (as in Exodus 32:9) or the Greek of the New (as in Acts 7:51), the figurative meaning of "stiff-necked" is "stubborn, obstinate, headstrong."
departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical
The opposite of figurative is literal.
Metaphor
Figurative
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symbolic
This type of figurative language is symbolism.
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are not used for their literal meaning
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Figurative language
That is an idiom (an expression or saying particular to a region that has a figurative meaning).
I turned off the flame on the gas stove.I turned off from my boyfriend's sexual advances.Literal just means that what you read actually happened. Figurative means that it is an idiom or slang, that it didn't actually happen.He kicked the bucket. The literal meaning is that he kicked a bucket. The figurative meaning is that he died.That's a piece of cake. The literal meaning is that it is a slice of cake. The figurative meaning is that it is something easy to do.