Figurative Language, Chapters 20-24

Simile:

None of them look like convicts as they are in white cook's uniforms or black dinner jackets like the wait staff of a fancy restaurant. (pg. 180)

Annie looks like a dressed up domino. (pg. 178)

Hyperbole:

I once tried to bake her alphabet cookies and they were so hard you could shoe horses with them. (pg. 178)