Metaphor
A word or phrase used to have a completely different meaning.
Example
Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" being a constant reminder of his loss and not truly a raven.
[n] 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
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accordance, agent, agreement, alikeness, allegory, alliance, alliteration, allusion, alternate, alternative, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, aping, apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis, ap