figurative
3.competition (real or figurative) for popular support.
4.It is no less figurative than metaphor.
6.language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
7.substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another.
8.Here the word is used in a figurative sense.
9.The word here is used in its figurative sense.
10."'A'sweet temper' is a figurative expression, but'sweet coffee' is not."
