A simile is a metaphor that admits it’s making a comparison. Similes tend to make you think; metaphors let you feel things directly.
From the TED-Ed Lesson The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield Animation by Ben Pearce |
simile in frankenstein
"No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me on-wards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success." (Shelly, 41)
Here Victor is explaining how not a single person could understand all the feelings that made him continue on this project. Once he gets his first successful step on making the monster, he starts making more progress and is motivated like a hurricane.
"The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp in our peaceful home." (Shelly, 26)
This is an example of when the novel is at one of it's calmer points and I think this is a really pretty sentence. He says that his wife's soul is holy and virtuous (saintly). He then says that it lights their peaceful home up like a very decorated lamp would.