Stylistic Devices: Simile

A simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the word “like” or “as”. It takes the form of:

He fights like a lion.
He swims as fast as a fish.
He slithers like a snake.
“My dad was a mechanic by trade when he was in the Army, When he got the tools out, he was like a surgeon.”

List of Figures of Speech in the English Language – Literary Devices
Accumulation	Climax	Metalepsis
Adjunction	Dysphemism	Metaphor
Adnomination	Ellipsis	Metonymy
Alliteration	Euphemism	Simile
Allusion	Epigram	Synecdoche
Anaphora	Epiphora (or epistrophe)	Tautology
Antanaclasis	Hyperbole	Understatement
Anticlimax	Hypophora	Zeugma and syllepsis
Antiphrasis	Irony
Antithesis	Litotes
Apostrophe	Oxymoron
Assonance	Personification
Cataphora	Puns
Chiasmus	Merism