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I suppose what you are asking is: what is a figure of speech called when it seems to refer to a reality?
If I said: "black as night" and it was not about the night-time, its' called a SIMILE. That word is pronounced as "simi-lee" or "si-mi-lee" and sounds like the word "similar", meaning "the same" or "nearly the same".
A simile usually has either the word "as" or the word "like" or even as in the Holy Bible "like unto".
Another example of a simile is: "like unto a wolf in sheep's clothing" meaning: a person who seems so gentle, so mild, so harmless (like a sheep); yet that same person is truly like a wolf (tears the other to pieces). The phrase "like a wolf in sheep's clothing" is the same as a person who deceives while pretending to be a friend, and in these days that's the same meaning as a "so-called friend".

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