Here's why:
* Personification: Giving human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas. (Example: "The wind whispered secrets through the trees.")
* Simile: A comparison using "like" or "as." (Example: "Her eyes were like stars.")
* Hyperbole: An exaggeration for emphasis. (Example: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.")
* Rhyme scheme: The pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines in a poem. (Example: AABB, ABAB, etc.)
Rhyme scheme is a poetic device, not a figure of speech. It deals with the sound and structure of a poem, not with figurative language.