Metaphor of the Day – Shark Bait
I just IMed a colleague who recently completed a Herculean task. I asked him how it felt to be done. He responded “About like a fish feels as he passes through the shark’s teeth on its way to the digestive tract.” Meditate on that for a while. Wait – is that a metaphor or a simile? Where is Amy when I need her?
I think it’s an analogy. Though from what I can imagine (and know of biology), it’s over for the fish pretty quick.
It’s a simile, as it uses “like”. He didn’t say he was a fish, but rather that he felt like a fish.