To deepen word knowledge and comprehension, students can create «Word Maps» for a selection of words to demonstrate their understanding of literal and figurative meanings of words, etymology, use, derivatives, parts of speech, and so forth. (booklistonline.com)
Even so, we are far more likely to paint for our readers a broad range of figurative meaning by keeping close to the literal field wherein that meaning takes root and flourishes, than by dispensing with the literal, and losing it and much of the figurative to boot. (firstthings.com)
In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare / pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm. (hughhowey.com)