All 4 Uses of
literally
in
Franny and Zooey
- It sounded to her cavilling and bitchy, and she felt a wave of self-hatred that, quite literally, made her forehead begin to perspire again.†
Chpt 1.2
- FRANNY literally jumped.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- The idea being that if you call out the name long enough and regularly enough and literally from the heart, sooner or later you'll get an answer.†
Chpt 2.2
- A cordon of waist-high bookcases lined three walls, their shelves cram-jammed and literally sagging with books—children's books, textbooks, second-hand books, Book Club books, plus an even more heterogeneous overflow from less communal "annexes" of the apartment.†
Chpt 2.3
Definition:
-
(literally as in: literally--not figuratively) actually true using the basic meaning of the words (not an exaggeration, metaphor, or other type of figurative speech)