The narrator's little brother, Doodle, receives several complimentary comparisons in the James Hurst short story, "The Scarlet Ibis." Three different examples of metaphorical useage (the comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as") are listed below.
The big brother compares himself to a slave in his desire to help Doodle learn to walk:
... that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than all their voices...
Later, the final storm's elements are compared to a child's game--of hide-and-go-seek, perhaps?
... lightning was playing across half the sky and thunder roared out, hiding even the sound of the sea.
In the story's final line, the dead Doodle is compared with the fallen ibis, and the rainstorm is likened to an irreligious act.
For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain.
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