Hatchet: Figurative Language 3

Fish began jumping. Hundreds of them, jumping and slapping the water.

• hyperbole

• personiifcation

• idiom

• metaphor

It was silent, but when he started to listen, really listen, he heard thousands of things.

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

The sun had come over him and cooked him while he slept.

• hyperbole

• personifcation

• idiom

• metaphor

His mouth and throat raged with the thirst.

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

He had probably swallowed a ton of water while he was swimming out of the plane.

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

He balanced on the log, holding himself up with the tree limbs.

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

His father and mother would tear the world apart to find him.

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

With the thought of the hamburger, the emptiness roared at him.

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

The lake water had filled his stomach but left it hungry, and now it demanded food, screamed for food.

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

The hero usually found some kind of plant that he knew was good to eat, and that took care of it.

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor