Hatchet Figurative Language

There was nothing obvious to eat and aside from about a million birds and the beaver, he hadn't seen animals to trap and cook.

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

Don't know, kid. . . The pilot's words were a hiss, barely audible.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• repetition

The jolts that took the pilot back had come, and now Brian sat and there was a strange feeling of silence in the thrumming roar of the engine - a strange feeling of silence and being alone.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• repetition

He was alone. In the roaring plane with no pilot he was alone. Alone.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• repetition

Page 26 - GOING TO DIE, Brian thought. Going to die, gonna die, gonna die - his whole brain screamed it in a sudden silence. Gonna die.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• repetition

Page 40 - Destroyed. The word came. I would have been destroyed and torn and smashed. Driven into the rocks and destroyed.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• repetition

Besides, he had probably swallowed a ton of it while he was swimming out of the plane and getting to shore.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• repetition

Page 74 - Shining black and silky the bear stood on its hind legs, half up, and studied Brian, just studied him, then lowered itself and moved slowly to the left, eating berries as it rolled along, wuffling and delicately using its mouth to lift each berry from the stem, and in seconds it was gone.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• repetition

But the hatchet missed, sailed into the wall where it hit the rocks with a shower of sparks, and his leg was instantly torn with pain, as if a hundred needles had been driven into it.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• repetition

The plane committed now to landing, to crashing, fell into the wide place like a stone, and Brian eased back on the wheel and braced himself for the crash.

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

• Repetition