<span><span>absorb
</span><span>devour
</span><span>drink
</span><span>eat
</span><span>gobble
</span><span>gulp
</span><span>ingest
</span></span><span><span>inhale
</span><span>wash down</span></span>
The infamous line from John Muir's "The Calypso Borealis- 'Where ha ye come fra? The swamp, that awfu' swamp" shows an example of dialect.
Simile is comparing two things using like and as
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
It is comparing numbers to pigeons.