The oath I took as a [meat] inspector said if I ever saw anything wrong I was supposed to report it. But today, if you blow your whistle, you're in trouble with the inspection service. I feel the oath I took is violated every day I work.
—William Freeman
simile
A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as." An example of a simile using like occurs in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem": "What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?"