Consider the poem below. Find two different literary devices that the author uses. In your response, write the lines that contain the two types of figurative language and the type of figurative language in each.

Example:
He was as fast as a cheetah - simile

Homework
I don't want to work today,
I only want to dance and play.
So I stack my homework on the floor,
and then tomorrow I get even more.
The piles grow into towers of white,
Blocking the doorway and blocking the light.
My homework threatens to swallow me whole