Can someone find 2 metaphors and similies in this poem ?

Question

Flying high like the sun,
Soaring in the blue vastness of
the mountain sky
Descending, diving like a rock dropped out of the heavens,
Screeching as it races fast as light, down at unsuspecting prey,
Plunging into icy water with all of Earth's harshness
Reappearing from the water's darkness,
Climbing up, up into the sky,
Shedding water off its wings, now glistening like diamonds,
as it speeds, higher, higher into the crystal heavens
Stopping its speeding climb,
it peaks, levels and circles once again
The world down below seems to applaud its amazing feat,
the wind whistles with amazement
The water sore from its ripping talons, which slashed the clear water's surface
causing ripples in agony,
making only minimal noise compared to the damage it suffered

Answer 1

Similes compare with like or as:
* Flying high like the sun
* Descending, diving like a rock dropped out of the heavens
* races fast as light
* glistening like diamonds

Metaphors compare without like or as:
* Earth's harshness
* crystal heavens

Also some personification here . . .
* The world down below seems to applaud its amazing feat,
* the wind whistles with amazement

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Answer 2

Flying high like the sun,
Descending, diving like a rock dropped out of the heavens,
----these are similes because they compare two things using like or as

Screeching as it races fast as light, down at unsuspecting prey,
The world down below seems to applaud its amazing feat,
the wind whistles with amazement
-----metaphors because they compare 2 things without using like/as

Answer 3

Simile:
1.Flying high like the sun
2.Descending, diving like a rock dropped out of the heavens
3.Screeching as it races fast as light, down at unsuspecting prey
4. Shedding water off its wings, now glistening like diamonds
SMILIES ALWAYS HAS LIKE OR AS IN THEM.
Metaphor:
1.Soaring in the blue vastness of
the mountain sky
2.Climbing up, up into the sky,
Shedding water off its wings

Answer 4

Similies: Flying high like the sun, diving like a rock dropped out of the heavens,

Metaphors: as it races fast as light, shedding water of its wings

Answer 5

Meatphors :
the wind whistles with amazement
causing ripples in agony

Similie:
Flying high like the sun
Diving like a rock dropped out of the heavens