A metaphor is a figure of speech that can help you picture something clearly by describing it as something else. It is not a simile which uses like and as. Metaphors usually use was and is.
SMART: He an intelligent Albert Einstein. FAT: Their belly was a pig after a feast. BEAUTIFUL: She was beautiful painting, bright and shining. UGLY: The face was a collage of horribleness SHORT: He was a small garden gnome.
