“He pushed off the trunk and ambled toward us.”
“His arms hung lanky at his sides. I shook out my shoulders to relax them.”
“He gripped a low horizontal branch, then swung himself around it like a hinge.”
“His sharp black elbows pointed down toward us like punctuation marks.”
“Styx leaned over the branch. His scrawny stomach bowed right over it.
Descriptive language: words or phrases that use imagery and visual details to describe something
Figurative language: the use of words or phrases that mean more than their dictionary definition