Hoot Figurative Language

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

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

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

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Symbolism

Dessert was an overbaked chocolate chip cookie the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

• Alliteration

Owl: Hoot:: Dog:Woof

• Analogy

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Symbolism

Using descriptive details  to appeal to our senses. 

• idiom

• Simile

• Imagery

• Alliteration

"Hoot" is an example of

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Which sentence includes a metaphor?

• I swung the bat and "whack" hit a home run!

• The candy was as sour as a lemon.

• My baby brother is a sweet teddy bear.

• Tommy took two tiny twigs.