What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile?

A)There is no difference between the two

B)A simile compares two unlike things directly by saying or implying that one thing is another while a metaphor compares them indirectly by saying or implying that one thing is similar to another.

C) A metaphor compares two unlike things directly by saying or implying that one thing is another while a simile compares them indirectly by saying or implying that one thing is similar to another.

B

Explanation:

A simile is direct. For example, she smells like a rose.

A metaphor is indirect. For example: The trees danced in the wind.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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