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figurative language

language in which meaning is extended by analogy, metaphor, or personification or emphasized by such devices as antithesis, alliteration, and so forth. Figurative language is most important in poetry and rhetoric but extends into almost all areas of language use.

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arithmetic disability

arithmetic disability

a disturbance in the ability to calculate that is associated with neurological impairment. See acalculia.