metaphor

Noun
  1. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity (synset 107121485)
    is a type of: figure, figure of speech, image, trope - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
    subtypes:
    • dead metaphor, frozen metaphor - a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake')
    • mixed metaphor - a combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect
    • synesthetic metaphor - a metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities

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