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Here's your shmoop du jour... Hey, this fella looks familiar... if you so

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wish, you can hit pause and review...

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Which of the following is an example of figurative language in the previous passage?

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And here are the potential answers:

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So... what is this question asking?

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What does figurative mean??

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Uh... no... that would be a figure skater... nice figure, though.

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Start with the semi-opposite cousin of figurative: the word LITERAL. Literal means that something

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actually happened.

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As in "he was literally in the very first row". So... not just ONE of the first rows...

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LITERALLY the very first.

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But if we said "his seats were so good he was sitting ON the ice..."

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Now we're probably not speaking literally.

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If we look at the 4 answer choices...

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...it appears that C is the only one that isn't literal.

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There are no actual, physical hopes that someone can get... up.

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Instead, "get your hopes up" is an idiom meaning "make you hopeful."

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So our answer is C.

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As in, "Checking."

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