Oscars. Oscar night is one of the biggest award show evenings of the year, but it's also one of the longest. Between the red carpet coverage and questions about what celebrities are wearing and Oscar speeches and awards to people we've never heard of, film buffs plan a whole night around this event.
Definition: Figurative language is a word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness. Metaphor and simile are the two most commonly used figures of speech, but things like hyperbole, synecdoche, puns, and personification are also figures of speech.
figurative, nonliteral (adj) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech figurative language figural, figurative (adj) consisting of or forming human or animal figures a figural design; the figurative art of the humanistic tradition- Herbert Read