No, a metaphor is not the same as a simile (hence the different names). While both similes and metaphors are used to make comparisons, the difference between them is the word one uses when using them. Similes use the words like or as to compare things while metaphors directly state a comparison.
For example if you want to use the computer you should think and be like I'm going to be in the computer lets say for 1 hour well instead of being in the computer you can clean wash dishes play outside or d something helpful that's what it trys to tell you
Once you have the quote inside the marks you are going to put parenthesis then put (pg. 38).
Stations on Earth send signals, while communication satellites beam the signals to another station thousands of miles away.