Metaphor

(mět'a-för.) [FromGr. metaphor a, a transferring. (Rhet.) The application of a word or phrase in some other than its ordinary sense, on account of some real or imaginary resemblance between two objects: thus, if we call ahero a lion, a minister a pillar of the state, a shrewish woman a Tartar, we speak metaphorically. [s. 595]