simile

In a 1944 letter, he noted that he sometimes found Welty’s gorgeous metaphors and similes a distraction, “touching something outside the story so vividly that for a moment the mind shifts away from the theme.”

I love that simile because she did refer to her wardrobe as an “impenetrable fortress.”

The settings—generic spaces such as cafés, train stations, hotel lobbies, and offices—tend to be described with similar brevity, while the detectives’ actions are recounted in prose generally lacking metaphor, simile, or fanciful digression.

He once used an unexpectedly shocking simile to denounce what he termed "hypocritical clericalism".

“The simile with the DNA is more a metaphor but in some way, there exists the connection as mentioned for solving paths.”