A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Example: Midgley (2000), for example, calls memes 'mythical entities' and an 'empty and misleading METAPHOR'.
en: métaphore
simile
noun
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).
Example: This is also apparent in Petrucci's Reflections , between stanzas two and three, where the SIMILE 'black as a space-time singularity,' is divided.