adverb "figuratively" Today was an introductory, meaningless words.But it has a fairly precise lexical meaning.Expressed figuratively - is reportedly dictionaries, it means "beautiful, allegorically, figuratively."
Why metaphors, similes, personification?
trails in the language referred to as figures of speech.Thanks to them, the texts take amazing views, literary works are fascinating, catch the reader and hold it until the very end of the book.And it happens because the author writes figuratively.That's what makes people imbued with sympathy for the heroes and characters.Metaphorical language allows the author's imagination to create vivid images, impersonation help feel the beauty of nature.Suffice it to compare two descriptions to understand that context, written figuratively - a poetic image, acting on the soul and imagination.
excerpt from a scientific article
Cluster of vegetation, including wood, located in subequatorial, tropical and equatorial belt, which is the area between 30 degrees south and 25 degrees north latitude, called rainforest.In the tropics created a zone of high atmospheric pressure.This causes the circulation of air masses to the area of low pressure, that is to the equator (Text dry, instantiated scientific explanations).
artistic description
beauty of tropical forests is difficult to describe a person with a poor imagination.Figuratively speaking, this is a magical place where trees-giants like huge live fantastic creatures, who are tired of life and its thousand feet rooted in the ground.But sometimes they start talking with each other in an incomprehensible to us, the people, the language.It is said that the wind stirs the branches somewhere up there, under the sky, but it is, of course, is not so!It giants giants wake up from his deep sleep, with a shake of hands-branches birds, monkeys and other animals.And those, in turn, sudden movement frightened, raised the cry: some are outraged, others are crying hysterically, and some fun laugh over the other (The text is written figuratively - this means that the author uses personification, metaphors, comparisons).
cognate adjective
meaning of "figurative" is an adverb with the common root.Consequently, the meaning of these words is similar."Metaphoric, allusive, eloquent" - this means that this adjective.Of course, the range of its use is quite narrow.Figuratively can not be a particular object or person - it can only be a work of literature, text, speech, manner of presentation, and the like.
