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  1. Usage that departs from everyday factual,
  2. plain, or literal language and is commonly
  3. considered poetic, imaginative, or
  4. ornamental. The traditional forms of
  5. figurative language, especially in
  6. literature, are the various figures of
  7. speech. The sentence `Justice is blind' is
  8. doubly figurative because it suggests that
  9. justice is a person (personification) rather
  10. than an abstract idea, and uses blind
  11. analogically to suggest unbiased (metaphor).
  12.