Metaphors vs Figurative - What's the difference?

As a noun metaphors

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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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(en adjective)

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

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.

* J. A. Symonds

They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.

* Said of language, expression, etc.

* literal

* figurativeness * figuratively

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