[chiefalchemist]

Yeah. But truth be told, I think the use of the word "like" makes it an analogy.

[shkkmo]

Actually the use of "like" it makes it a simile. It's the explanation that follows that makes it an analogy.

Both analogies and similies are really just overlapping categorical subsets of metaphors.

[dgb23]

„Don’t argue with the rhetoric“