The author describes the dinosaur as a “perpetual eating machine, truly immense, clumsy and slow’’ .Children can imagination about Brachiosaurus is the largest dinosaur and what the dinosaur doing
Metaphor: ‘’it was a perpetual eating machine’’
The author comparison the Brachiosaurus is a perpetual eating machine (eat all the time)
Irony : ‘’it hadn't the need to be clever and wise, no beast dared to bother a being its size.’’
Image of sight, taste: ‘’it nibbled the leaves that were tender and green’’