Is this sentence a metaphor (comparing a word or phrase to a person, place, or thing)? Or at least the first part?

"The sky broke open and rain poured down"

In addition to academic and extracurricular achievements in school, i am an involved member of my community. i volunteer at the local animal shelter every saturday morning, and i build houses for a nonprofit organization a few times a year with my family. which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used here? a. inductive logic b. ethos c. parallelism d. text structure

Compare and contrast spoon river anthology

What is the meaning of 'aesthetic'?