simile

noun3

1. •
   (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.

   • My father is a quiet man / With sober, steady ways; / For simile, a folded fan; / His nights are like his days. — 1925
2. •
   Similarity or resemblance to something else; likeness, similitude.
3. •
   Something similar that's not a clone.