A metaphor is a literary device involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. It’s intent is to make it easier for the viewer or reader to understand a certain situation or topic. In All Quiet on the Western Front, we see the use of simile being used to describe the feeling of being a soldier and the front of the war. Specifically, when Paul compares themselves to coins. He said that before the war, every man were “...coins of different provinces; and now we are melted down, and all bear the same stamp.” (Page…