Translate the sentences and define the underlined lexical stylistic devices:
1. I am the new year.
2. Notre'Dame squats in the dusk.
3. The praise was enthusiastic enough to have delighted any common writer who earns his living by his pen.
4. His eye met hers as she sat there paler and whiter than anyone in the vast ocean of anxious faces about her.
5. Her painful shoes slipped off.
6. A neon sign reads "Welcome to Reno - the biggest little town in the world."
7. She was a giant of a woman.
8. The little woman, for she was of pocket size, crossed her hands solemnly on her middle.
9. Several months ago a magazine named Playboy which concentrates editorially on girls, books, girls, art, girls, music, fashion, girls and girls, published an article about old-time science-fiction.
10. He is between jobs.
11. My stomach was punishing me for not eating on time.
12. You're a regular Einstein.
13. I don't like what's going on. I feel like a noodle in boiling water.
14. He ate his food, as well as his words.
15. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'
16. Ouch! That shot really hurt!
17. My better half came into the room.
18. The dancer was a graceful eagle taking flight.