Cast out because you are exiling them away and to you would be casting them out
He was a poet this included his contribution of poetry to the memorial collection of Queen Elizabeth of Valois <span />
A simile because it uses the word "like" to compare the day to the walk through the oven (in other news, slightly uncomfortable with that simile)
An autobiography is the writing of a life by the person who lived that life. It is, in other words, a biography written by the person who is the subject of that biography.