What Does Simile Mean?

Simile basically is a figure of speech in which the matter is compared to an additional matter. Often, similes are tagged by the application of terms "like" or "as".

Similes are made up of two parts, which are the comparandum, the article to be compared, and the comparatum, the article to which the comparison is made. Metaphors vary from smiles in context that the two articles are not balanced, but are treated as alike.  

The simile "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" was written by Irina Dunn who was a well known Australian editor, journalist cum educator, she put this simile down on the walls of two bathrooms in Sydney Australia, this simile spread across the globe from there on. Amusingly she was in fact trying to co-opt the so called "Vique's Law, which goes as "Man needs religion like a fish needs a bicycle".

A simile is a comparison using the words like or as.  

Example:

A ocean is like a windy field.


Now without a like or as would be a metaphor.

Example:

My mom is a peach.

It's more of a direct comparison.

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It is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by the words like or as. Example: Cold as a mother in law's kiss.

I had a dog and his name was dandy his tail was long and his legs were bandy his eyes were brown and his coat was sandy the best in the world was my dog dandy