Literary vs Figurative - What's the difference?
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Relating to literature.
* Johnson
Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
* Mason
Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
Bookish.
Metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs".
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Metaphorically so called
With many figures of speech
Emblematic; representative
* Hooker
* J. A. Symonds
As adjectives the difference between literary and figurative
is that literary is relating to literature while figurative is metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "it's raining cats and dogs".literary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- literary''' fame; a '''literary''' history; '''literary conversation
- He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
- a literary man
- in the literary as well as fashionable world
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* (l)Derived terms
* literary criticism * literary device * literary form * literary genre * literary technique * literary theoryExternal links
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This, they will say, was figurative , and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.
- They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.