Question

Figurative language is a precise explanation of a situation or process.

Answer 1

Answer:

False

Explanation:

Figurative language uses specific images or words that differ from a literal interpretation, creating a stronger and striking idea.

Examples of figurative language are: simile, metaphor, simile or personification (Litcharts). These devices are used to create images that are more resonant and significant than a literal one.

Answer 2

Answer:

The affirmation "Figurative language is a precise explanation of a situation or process" is FALSE.

Explanation:

When authors use figurative language, they employ words in a different way, by giving them meanings that are not the literal and obvious meanings they carry. There are many devices to use figurative language, the most common being metaphors, similes, hyperboles, personification etc. Study the example below:

- Your lips are rose petals moist with morning dew.

The writer does not mean someone's lips are literally petals. That would be physically impossible. This is a metaphor, a type of figurative language that compares two different things with the purpose of attributing the qualities of one to the other. By saying someone's lips are moist petals, the writer probably wishes to emphasize their softness, or their glowing color.