"Lion Down" Analysis Figurative Language

In the novel “Lion Down” by Stuart Gibbs on page 24 the author writes, “We could see hundreds of workers scrambling all over it, looking like ants on an anthill.” This quote demonstrates a simile because it is a comparison of two groups of creatures that individually look nothing alike. Although, as teddy observes the workers all together look like a colony of worker ants constructing an anthill instead of the new amusement park rides in FunJungle called “The Wilds” while they were walking. Despite this being a brutal comparison of two unalike groups of organisms the author remarks the humans “look like” ants. Thus, the figurative language is a simile not a metaphor.