Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  shiva, shivah, shibah(noun) (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative. the family is sitting shiva. 2  Siva, Shiva(noun) the destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later Hindu pantheon.
Figurative language is the use of words in an unusual or imaginative manner. Often figurative language involves the use of a metaphor, a simile, personification, hyperbole, idiom, a euphemism, and pun.However, as the term figurative language also covers unusual or imaginative word constructions (and not just word meanings), it also includes alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia.hen most people think of figurative language, similes and metaphors spring to mind. However, the term figurative language covers a wide range of literary techniques. Here are some examples of figurative language in each of the categories: A metaphor asserts that one thing is something that it literally is not.
List of Latin phrases. This page lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as Greek rhetoric and literature were highly regarded in Ancient Rome when Latin rhetoric and literature were still maturing.