Question

He was like a wingspan who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow." -George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859

The quote above is an example of a(n)

Answer 1

simile

Answer 2

I would explain that this is a mistyped quote, but openstudy.com desperately wants to change the paragraph I copied & pasted from Google into something else. So we'll go with simile.

The short and easy way to remember these:
simile = comparison using "like"
metaphor = comparison using "is"