Similies: figure of speech in which 2 things that arent alike are compared by like or as

• Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed. (11) 
• It smells like the sweaty tongue of a hockey skate (14).
• When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. (20)
• Where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road. (21)
• It is exactly the kind of case I avoid like the Black Plague. (25)

Metaphor: figure of speech similar to a similie but doesn't use like or as

• Flames are licking at your heels you've got to break a wall or two if you want to escape.(13)
• Lately, I have been having nightmare, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together (13)
• The four-hour surgery isn't a walk in the park, either- you have a 1 in 3,000 chance of dying on the operation table. (50) 
• When she is tied to the bed, I am her eyes and ears. (58)
• A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod approaches with a pad.  (91)