runners and riders
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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."
Presumably a procession of people. Motorcade = procession of cars Cavalcade = Procession of riders on horseback (from Cavalcare = to ride) Alternatively, and looking at other similar questions, it means your spelling leaves something to be desired.
departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical
The opposite of figurative is literal.
Figurative
of Bathe
of Seed
When a word or event has a literal and figurative meaning, it is called symbolic or symbol.
symbolic
symbolic
This type of figurative language is symbolism.
This type of figurative language is symbolism.
"Lost" in figurative sense means that you do not know what's going on, that your mind is "lost" trying to find meaning.
What type of figurative language is Horton's quote, "I'm light as a feather"?
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