Figurative Language

The bacon sizzled in the pan. 

It's raining cats and dogs.

What term describes the beat of a poem

He runs like a cheetah.

Place where lines of poetry end to add emphasis to certain words or phrases

Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words

A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

Her hair is a golden ray of sunlight.

Repetition of sounds at the end of words

A common expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.

I am dying of thirst!

The wind was whispering in the night.

The literary device most often used in "If I Were in Charge of the World"

a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

Her eyes were as bright as the sun.

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration

Sally sells sea shells by the seashore. 

A comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as"

a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words

What do you call groups of lines in a poem?

I had to walk on egg shells around my mom.