Writers try (or at least they should try) not to use "like" as in "like a bat out of hell." Or "as" in a comparison. Here are some examples of good analogies.
"I'd rather listen to a Styrofoam cooler squeaking in the back set of a car for five hours than: listen to country western; talking on the phone with my mother-in-law."
"Cat nip is the Devil's lettuce." Pure statement of fact. Not, "Some consider cat nip as the devil's lettuce."
Sign in a bar window "Gentlemen - no shirt, no service. Ladies - no shirt, no charge." This is not an analogies. But it is funny.
Red as a beet. Smelly as a pig sty. As oily as a three card monte dealer. (double points two uses.))
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