In this simile, the speaker is comparing a situation or action to lightning. They are emphasizing how quickly and unexpectedly the action occurs, just like how lightning flashes and disappears before one can even say "It lightens."
"too like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say 'It lightens' "
"Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say "It lightens"
An example of a simile is, 'The girl was slow as molasses.'
It is a simile, they use like or as. Like many similes, you could convert it to a metaphor: "In the ring, his hands became bolts of lightning."
He ran as fast as lightning
The jellyfish sting burned like lightning.
It is a metaphor
as fast as lightning or as fast as light
The idiom "quick as greased lightning" means extremely fast or rapid, like lightning that is slick and fast due to being lubricated with grease. It is used to describe someone or something that moves or acts very quickly.
A simile A simile is a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another.
Two shakes of a lamb's tail.
nope In order to be a simile, you must have two items being compared using the words "like" or "as". "Sun" is not being compared to anything in your example.