Worst ever

[garote]

I was pondering the difference between metaphor, simile, and analogy at 6:00am for some reason, and the following sentence formed in my head:

"The restaurant was like a great beast; pouncing on customers, digesting the cash from their wallets, and pooping them back onto the sidewalk covered in grease."

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[graue.livejournal.com]

Now you're just TRYING to give me too-late novel writing inspiration. You bastard!

[conflictdswitch.livejournal.com]

An analogy focuses on the similar features between the two things being compared. A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared. A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.

Since you used the word like, that would be a simile... and a little personification thrown in for color.

[garote]

Yet, I was focusing on similar features between the two things (restaurant vs. beast). So that would make it an analogy, right?

And what do you mean by "explicitly" compared?

[conflictdswitch.livejournal.com]

I could see it going either way. Definitely not a metaphor. Got the number for the Lit Dept. at SJSU?

And what do you mean by "explicitly"
Ask dictionary.com. That's where I got the definition. 8)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ofuda_/]

Oh, that's a nasty visual right there. XD Nice work!