<span>There was a proud and very profane young man... But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard.
A metaphor is a figurative language that compares two unlike things directly
Explanation:
My brother is a piglet
The child can not be a pig but can share pig characteristics, like playing in the mud and being untidy. The brother and the pig are being compared directly.
