How do you use periphrasis in a sentence?

My dog sleeps beside my bed he wakes me up in the middle of the night to let him out. complete, run-on sentence or comma splice

Which best identifies the figurative language used in this passage? cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volley’d and thunder’d; storm’d at with shot and shell, boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred.

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