Question

What is the difference between similes and metaphors?

Answer 1

Answer: a good way to tell the difference between the two is a simile will always use the words “like” or “as”

Example: her cheeks were *like* roses

This is saying that she was blushing and her cheeks were red from it

A metaphor with use neither of those and would imply or say that they were exactly that it uses neither like or as

Example: her cheeks were roses

This is still saying that she was blushing and she was red on the cheeks but in stead of comparing to roses they are roses

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Answer 2

similes they use like or as to compare something but metaphors compare things but don't use like or as