metaphor vs simile: What's the difference?

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Which is correct: metaphor or simile

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metaphornoun

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

similenoun

a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

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