Simile- A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind.

Example from the text-

“You only get lions and tigers in big countries like Africa and India” (line27-28, page 103). The simile is conveying the size of a country needed to host lions and tiger, hence the island isn’t large enough.

Simile

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.” Pg. 21: “When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade.” The use of the simile uses foreign concepts to convey the meaning of his passage better to the reader by saying something is LIKE another thing.