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Define stylistic device for each example and explain your choice

1. His words were as dull as a dirt


2. In came the moon and covered me with wonder
3. You’re a frightened owl …
4. He heard “meow” in the darkness of the night.
5. He was an honest thief, taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich

6. Her smile is like the sun.


7. The stone made a plopping sound as it entered the water.
8. The joke was seriously funny.
9. The waves raced to shore.
10. A silver snake slithered across the sand.
11. They have a million things to do today.
12. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in
the earth
13. A single dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice.
14. Death has reared himself a throne / In a strange city lying alone
15. Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true
16. Splash- splash , came the sound from the swimming pool
17. I cannot disagree with your point of view.

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