Difference between Representative and Illustration

What is the difference between Representative and Illustration?

Representative as a noun is one who may speak for another in a particular capacity, especially in negotiation. while Illustration as a noun is the act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

Representative

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Typical; having the same properties of interest as a larger group.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One who may speak for another in a particular capacity, especially in negotiation. A member of a legislative or governing body who represents a constituency. One that is taken as typical of a body of individuals. A member of the US House of Representatives. A designated member of an equivalence class.

Example sentence: It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.

Illustration

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.

Example sentence: What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

We hope you now know whether to use Representative or Illustration in your sentence.

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