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countable and uncountable, plural similes or similia
A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as. quotations examples
He made a simile of George the third to Nebuchadnezzar, and of the prince regent to Belshazzar, and insisted that the prince represented the latter in not paying much attention to what had happened to kings […]
1826, Thomas Bayly Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours, volume 33
My father is a quiet man / With sober, steady ways; / For simile, a folded fan; / His nights are like his days.
1925, Countee Cullen, Fruit of the Flower