Bringing two different things together with an explicit word, such as "like," "just as," or "seems." Unlike the metaphor, the simile makes it plain that they are two things.
In Julius Caesar
I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, / Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder / The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber / Did I the tirèd Caesar
The phrase links the two rescues with "like" and "so": Cassius stands to Caesar as Aeneas stood to Anchises. The likeness lends grandeur to Cassius's gesture and leaves Caesar small, a weary man who needs to be carried.
Act I: The Triumph and Seduction of Brutus, Cassius
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus, and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs and peep about / To find ourselves dishonorable graves
Act I: The Triumph and Seduction of Brutus, Cassius
And therefore think him as a serpent's egg / Which, hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, / And kill him in the shell.
Act II: The Conspiracy and the Morning of the Ides, Brutus
He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold, / To groan and sweat under the business
Act IV: The Quarrel in the Camp, Mark Antony
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