Figurative Language

What is Figurative Language?

Funny words which mean you're saying something you don't literally mean.

English teachers like to give you nice terms like "Figurative language". It's just useless new names for things you already know.

Kirschenbaum

1. a type of prehistoric Terradactyl. my favorite dinosaur is a kirschenbaum. See t-rex, raptor, dinosaur..

Zappa?

1. Originated in Canton, Michigan. Used mostly by attractive women in their twenty's. A word used as a question when you don't un..

540

1. Used primarily by skate and snowboarders to describe the performing of 1 1/2 full rotations, ususally while airborne. So named because ..

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