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    "title": "Figurative Language",
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    "abstract": "Figurative Language is a traditional rhetorical style, which refers to a group of diverse tropes and uses of words describing pictorial or graphical objects in a non-literal way (Dancygier and Sweetser 2014; Colston 2015). Figurative language acts by contrast to other non-figurative language, just as a metaphorical word acts by contrast when used together with other non-metaphorical words (Ricoeur 2003: 161–162). Genette (1966: 205–221) reports that the contrast between figurative and non-figurative is that of a real language to a virtual one, and that the content depends totally on the speaker’s and listener’s own perceptions. In general, when necessary, all kinds of languages can be used in a figurative sense. Figurative expressions refer to the similarities of on object’s shape, colour, feature or function.",
    "language": "en",
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    "keywords": [
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            "word": "Arts and Humanities"
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    "section": "Language, Text and Writing",
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        {
            "first_name": "Shih-Wei",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hsu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Nankai University",
            "department": "None"
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    "date_submitted": "2008-04-08T20:58:53Z",
    "date_accepted": "2008-04-08T20:58:53Z",
    "date_published": "2023-05-15T07:00:00Z",
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