What type of figurative language expresses similarities between two unlike things, but does not use the words like or as?

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Why does koskoosh give up his fight with the wolves

"night. no one was praying for the night to pass quickly. the stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes." explain the images included in the passage. how is the use of the image of night contradictory to how we might expect it to be used