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What does literalize mean?

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Verb
  1. To make literal or prosaic
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The problem is not fantasy but allegory, which exists to literalize and simplify.
The result is a series of ghostly, uncanny dialogues that manage to literalize the mysterious force — part guide, part confessor — with which Heti feels herself to be in communion while she is writing.
Fitting music to verse can be tricky territory: if you literalize a poem with musical gestures, you may be taking away its mysteries and killing it.
As if to literalize the longing of the title, a breathtakingly extended axle-like element joins a towering wheel to a tall woven hive shape.
Acting on behalf of all the invisible foot soldiers of institutional accountability, he tried to literalize the fantasy that experience can be reproduced.
When using more than one color, he applied each to a separate, abutted panel, in diptychs and triptychs, to literalize their division.

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