Comparison

Bringing two things together with an explicit word, such as "like", "just as", or "seems". Unlike the metaphor, the comparison leaves visible that they are two things.

In The Slum

E naquela terra encharcada e fumegante, naquela umidade quente e lodosa, começou a minhocar, a esfervilhar, a crescer, um mundo, uma coisa viva, uma geração, que parecia brotar espontânea, ali mesmo, daquele lameiro, e multiplicar-se como larvas no esterco, And on that soaking, steaming land, in that hot and muddy damp, a world began to wriggle, to seethe, to grow, a living thing, a generation that seemed to sprout spontaneously right there from that swamp and multiply like larvae in dung

The word "like" brings the residents close to "larvae in dung" and puts the tenement on the level of a swarming swamp.

Chapters I to II: João Romão's Tenement and Miranda's House, the narrator

pareciam um punhado de demônios revoltados na sua impotência contra o impassível gigante que os contemplava com desprezo, they looked like a handful of demons raging in their helplessness against the impassive giant that gazed down on them with contempt

Chapters III to V: The Tenement Wakes and Romão Hires Jerônimo, the narrator

O Miranda apareceu furioso à janela, com o seu tipo de comendador, a barriga empinada para a frente, de paletó branco, um guardanapo ao pescoço e um trinchante empunhado na destra, como uma espada, Miranda appeared furious at the window, with his air of a comendador, belly thrust forward, in a white jacket, a napkin at his neck, and a carving knife raised in his right hand like a sword

Chapters VI to VII: Rita Baiana's Sunday and the Pagode, the narrator

João Romão subia e ela ficava cá embaixo, abandonada como uma cavalgadura de que já não precisamos para continuar a viagem, João Romão rose and she stayed down here, abandoned like a beast of burden we no longer need to continue the journey

Chapters XII to XIV: Marriage, the Rival Tenement, and the Plan of Revenge, the narrator