Which is the best definition of simile?
a.
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is spelled the same forward and backward; for example, "a man, a plan, a canal, panama"
b.
a figure of speech that uses one part of something to represent the whole thing; for example, "the footsteps followed her"
c.
a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using like or as; for example, "nancy's cheeks are as red as roses"
d.
a figure of speech that gives human traits or characteristics to non-human objects; for example, "the wind laughed"