Brontë also used literally in the figurative sense in her novel Villette: “[S]he took me to herself, and proceeded literally to suffocate me with her unrestrained spirits.” 6. F.

Figurative painter Jonah Kinigstein was shut out of the art world when abstract expressionism came to prominence. Now he's finally getting some recognition.

Figurative language is a kind of descriptive language that doesn’t mean what it says literally.. Here are some figurative language techniques that you might already know. Similes describe ...

The world’s oldest figurative paintings, showing a pig and three humans, have been discovered on the ceiling of a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, says a team of Australian ...