Hoot Chapters 1-6 Figurative Language

The man, who was as bald as a beach ball, introduced himself as curly.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A ribbon of bright pink plastic was tied to one end of the stick. The other end was sharpened and caked with grey dirt.

• Personification

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Curly gestured at a hole in the ground. It was as big around as one of Mother Paula's famous buttermilk flapjacks.

• Simile

• Symbol

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Officer Delinko wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Yet it had turned out not to be the sleepy little village that the captain had envisioned.

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopeia

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The seconds would tick by until finally the bull would sink to its knees in exhaustion.

• onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Analogy

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Curly heard a cry and watched in surprise as the policeman burst from the doorway of the latrine, leaping off the flatbed like an Olympic hurdler.

• Idiom

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Dear Dana, I’m sorry I thumped you.

• Idiom

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What do you think that Gorilla’s gonna do next time he sees you?

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Roy figured it had been at least a hundred years since anyone named their daughter Beatrice. 

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3