Question

Effects that depend on literal or figurative language (e.g., jokes that come from a character’s taking things literally; misunderstandings that arise from the use of figurative language) 


Answer 1

A figurative language refers to indirectly pointing out certain things covered in different literary devices such as sarcasm, imagery, proverbs, idioms and phrases etc. Most of the time, people hearing this wouldn’t understand this language unless they are familiar with thus it would cause some confusion among them unless the speaker clarifies them. When people take figurative languages literally, it would mean nothing to that context and some would even start fighting with the speaker thinking that they don’t respect them. Figurative speech is however very useful for public speaking rather than in normal conversations because there is always an opportunity for the speaker to clarify before it is misunderstood where as in personal conversations it would become very unusual. It would also add a great deal of value in writings because people would enjoy reading it as it would be mostly written objectively without pointing to the reader directly.

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