Simile

With a simile or metaphor, identify what is being compared, the qualities transferred by the comparison and why those qualities matter. With sensory description, explain what the reader is made to imagine and how that shapes the scene. There is no single automatic effect for a technique: alliteration does not always create menace, and a short sentence does not always create tension.

A simile compares using ‘like’ or ‘as’, while a metaphor describes something in terms of something else. Imagery can evoke sound, touch and movement as well as sight.

Now examine the simile, “like a bale of goods”. A bale is a bundled load transported by someone else. The comparison turns Bird from an active climber into something being hauled.