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We were learning figurative language and looking up lyrics from music and they became totally interested in words.
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The secret was to employ a stripped-down vocabulary and, crucially, avoid all figurative language and never tell jokes.
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"For example if someone says Swedish people are literally born on skis, they are using figurative language in born on skis, but using literally is conjuring up an image of midwives delivering babies on skis - we laugh because it's a juxtaposition, " he says.
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In 1955 he suddenly embraced representation, turning out dozens of figurative paintings that translate the language of Matisse into a wholly personal, semiabstract style.
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Ian Brookes, consultant editor at Collins English Dictionary, agrees the figurative and metaphorical use of the word crept into the English language as an intensifier.
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The novel demands to be read like this, as a fable, for while it roots around in the stench and swill of life, it is at the same time a highly figurative tale about truth versus fact, about meaning, and the power of language both to carry and destroy it.
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