Metaphors – That was chalked up as a lucky shot. / Here was a country, not just at zero, but below zero / Aided had kept up the pressure
Similes – A complex mission like this one was choreographed as carefully as ballet, only dangerous as hell / He felt is chopper hit something hard, like an invisible speed bump
Figurative language - Dowdy was in full payback mode. / He could take a hammering without even changing course / The fight raged in all directions.
Personification – The convoy arrived like an answer to his Hail Mary / The shooting got so furious on that hunt that one of the snipers put a hole in the blackhawk’s