Simile Vs. Metaphor: What’s The Difference?

This articles compares simile vs. metaphor and explains how and when to use both.

Each is a figurative language strategy English language writers use to enhance their messages. Similes and metaphors make comparisons between two different things.

When writers explore similar qualities, or traits, of two different things, such as a person and an animal or a room and the weather, s/he uses similes or metaphors. The main difference between these two figures of speech is that similes use the w...