Compound sentence about a waterfall?

Carefully retyoe the sentence , when we are in washington, d.c, we like to visit the smithsonian institution and the washington monument

Read the excerpt from "how i learned english.” and that was important, as important as joe barone asking me how i was through his tears, picking me up and dusting me off with hands like swatters, what does the imagery in the excerpt best readers picture? the awful stinging sensation of being dusted off the quick slapping motion of joe’s hands how roughly the speaker is pulled off the ground how loud and hard joe is laughing

When grendel speaks of unferth and says "i could crush him like a fly" what literary device is being used