Three key aspects of figurative language are similes, metaphors and personification.

Can you use more than one element of figurative language in a sentence?

Perhaps most necessarily, poetry specializes in the extremity called metaphor-or, more broadly, in the extremity of figurative language.

In addition, the abundant use of figurative language indicates that many proverbs express things more suggestively than directly and universally.

Sensuous description and figurative language are brought into consonance with natural wonder.

He retired into his studio to remake himself as a figurative painter.

Throughout his career, he was a figurative painter, and all the genres he worked in - cafe scenes, landscapes, still lifes, urban allegory - are established art genres with a familiar history.

He started out as a figurative painter, and through the 1930s was still depicting landscapes and everyday scenes, though in an increasingly stylized manner.

He began his career during the 1980s as a figurative painter.

His early paintings are naturalistic, but later he became an expressive figurative painter.

Its distinguishing features are a return to storytelling and to figurative painting.

Are you looking at the full stop to a long line of figurative painting or seeing the start of a world-changing new vision?

Is the return of figurative painting a shocking kind of disruption, then, or just a quirky-looking return to tradition?

Once figurative painting was supplanted in modern art in the 20th century, it never managed to stage much of a comeback.

Writers who promote contemporary figurative painting bear a double burden.

Figurative representation, the comforting universal symbols of old, do not wash in our muddled times.

At a glance it suggests abstraction, but examination reveals a pixilation of reality at the breaking edge of figurative representation.

Stylistically, his work at this time became much more abstract, abandoning figurative representation in favor of symbolic allusions.

His works in the 1980s showed a tendency towards figurative representations, and dealt with problems of identity.

A variety of open work ivory carvings, engraved with iron burins, are renowned for their figurative representations that include polar bears, loons, seals, and (rarely) humans.

A major survey looking at how figurative sculpture has been reinvented from the late-1980s to the present.

At 40,000 years old, it counts as the world's earliest known figurative sculpture.

They refer pointedly to the tradition of figurative sculpture, but they do so in a manner that feels intensely personal and trustworthy.

The external frieze often contained a continuous band of figurative sculpture or ornament, but this was not always the case.

He works primarily on figurative sculpture in clay within the neoclassical tradition.

In a transferred or figurative sense, it could mean a cloak or a disguise.

This means in a figurative sense that a company should be made up to a place, where one would like to work!

The figurative sense of the word has ground in mechanics comparable to figurative uses of steamroller or battering ram to mean something overwhelming.

A new church in a figurative sense came along in 1846, when the congregation was unable to find a pastor.

Until very recently, the figurative sense of red herring was thought to originate from a supposed technique of training young scent hounds.

So was his career, which moved towards his signature geometric style — known as suprematism — before his late shift to figurative work.

His reputation - never great - has fallen off in recent years, but this show of both abstract and figurative work demonstrates how good he could be.

It makes a refreshing change from his better-known figurative work.

He never imagined himself doing anything other than figurative work, but was drawn to the abstract.

His early works were abstract, moving towards figurative work later in his career.