Metaphor in Literature (incomplete)

A comparison Using the words "like" or "as".

That puppy is as cute as my English teacher.

That puppy smells like my English teacher.

A Comparison Between two or more things that Does NOT use "like" or "as" or comparison words like "Bigger" or "Biggest"

My English teacher is a teddy bear.

Thy tones are silver melted into sound.

So I sit spinning still, round this decaying form, the fine threads of rare and subtle thought.

Still sits the school-house by the road, a ragged beggar sunning.

Blind fools of fate and slaves of circumstance, / Life is a fiddler, and we all must dance.