If you make you mr question more clear I can answer it :)
Answer:
my friends and i were traveling abroad three times since we had finished school
A simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. Now, you simply have to find the simile, and think about how you can interpret it. Since you did not attach the excerpt I can’t answer but at least this is how to do it.
the couplet form support the meaning of the lines:
a. by completing the speaker's thought
