Hoot Chapters 1-6 Figurative Language

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

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

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

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

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

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

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

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopeia

• Personification

• Idiom

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

• onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Analogy

• imagery

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

Dear Dana, I’m sorry I thumped you.

• Idiom

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Symbolism

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

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

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

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Symbolism