Simile
"He's as bald as a coot!" -Audience, 20.
Simile
"Find a protector, I suppose, a patron, and cling to him like ivy round a tree?" -Cyrano, 75
Metaphor
As critic Eve Sweetser says, "the character Cyrano is not just a poet and author of written works; he views his life as his major work, and his greatest ‘literary’ or artistic work is his creation of a romantic hero as a worthy mate for Roxane, using himself and Christian as the components. In a sense, therefore, although the play is Rostand’s poetry, the events contained in it are to be understood metaphorically as Cyrano’s poetic creation." In this way, the play is a metaphor for Cyrano's creative impulse.
Metaphor
The discussion of wearing the plume in battle is a metaphor for being courageous and true to oneself.
Simile
"My belly's like a drum" -Another cadet, 131.
