Like a Metaphor, Uses “like” or “as”

This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from Fauna and Flora, Group 180, Puzzle 2 (Exotic Species).

Question is: Like a Metaphor, Uses “like” or “as”

and the answer is: SIMILE

Word Meaning:

SIMILE — (literary device) A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.

Definitions from Wiktionary.