An empty school is like a ghost town, with echoing hallways and silent classrooms.
It is a simile because it uses the word an. Haha, I had the excact same question on my grammer worksheet in school. \ / _
...forever trip into mystery.
"More fierce and more inexorable far than empty tigers or the roaring sea."
school can be like a bowl of cherries, sometimes sweet, sometimes sour
It happens when the simile breaks certain school rules so the principal has to send it home for a few days depending on what rule was broken.
A simile.
it is a metaphor because a simile must have 'as' or 'like' in it whereas a metaphor is something that's not literal and is normally when something stands for another thing
The door flung open, like something wild had escaped from it . Like it was empty, two-story tomb of some runaway zombie.
A metaphor
an empty one.
The simile "as big as a school bus" likely originated from the actual size of a school bus, which is large and easily recognizable to most people. It is used to emphasize the impressive size or scale of something by comparing it to something familiar and easy to visualize.
As quick as a wink is a simile. ----