Can you give examples please!
2007-02-28 05:15:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Figuratively speaking means it's not literal, but using a figure of speech, such as a simile or metaphor. Metaphorically speaking, you are using a metaphor. "Your eyes are like stars" is figuratively speaking. "Your eyes are deep pools of mud" is both figuratively and metaphorically speaking.
2007-02-28 07:55:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Metaphorically Speaking
2016-12-12 18:16:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Figuratively Speaking
2016-09-30 03:32:50 · answer #3 · answered by aharon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like a bull in a china shop. Would be a metaphor or an illusion to an event that would create the same type of end. If the same phrase were spoken in the figurative sense it would really be a real bull in a real china shop. And not be a phrase that is illustrative.
2007-02-28 05:30:01 · answer #4 · answered by Tom H 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Figuratively speaking, I had to search the whole wide world, cross oceans and conquer kingdoms for the answer to your query.
Metaphorically speaking, the answer is as easy as a click of a mouse button.
http://www.answers.com/topic/figure-of-speech
2007-02-28 05:32:17 · answer #5 · answered by Tammy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Figuratively is absolute, actual, while metaphorically is abstact, imaginative.
2007-02-28 05:21:35 · answer #6 · answered by timmer 2 · 0⤊ 8⤋
There's these things called "dictionaries" Intelligent people have been using them for quite awhile now.
Figuratively: 1 a : representing by a figure or resemblance :
2 a : expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another with which it may be regarded as analogous b : characterized by figures of speech
Metaphorically: 1 : a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money); broadly : figurative language
2 : an object, activity, or idea treated as a metaphor
Amazing isn't it?
2007-02-28 05:28:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 16⤋