The Croc’s Enormous Teeth
An enormous crocodile should, by all manner of expectations, be equipped with an equally impressive set of teeth. And this particular croc doesn’t disappoint. The metaphor used to describe his choppers is vivid enough to not even require the accompanying illustration:
“The Enormous Crocodile grinned again and his terrible sharp teeth sparkled like knives in the sun.”
A Slightly Quicker Monkey
On his way through the jungle to reach the town where the juicy kids are, the crocodile unwisely spills the beans about his plans to a variety of other animals. This course of action will prove especially unwise as each thwarts him later on. The monkey, of course, has reasons of his own for getting back at the crocodile and if it weren’t for monkeys being agile and adept, he might not have had the chance:
“`I eat monkeys, too.’ And quick as a flash, with one bite of his huge jaws, he bit through the tree that Muggle-Wump was sitting in.”
Riddle Me This, Roly-Poly
The greedy croc finds it quite amusing that his little poem describing the exquisite taste of children is misinterpreted by Roly-Poly Bird as a poem about eating berries. In fact, he finds it amusing to a metaphorical degree:
“The Enormous Crocodile laughed so much his teeth rattled together like pennies in a piggy bank.”
The Crocodile’s Disguises
The crocodile is quite proud of his position as a stable genius capable of figuring out a number of ways to trick unsuspecting children into not realizing he is a dangerous predator. He does it by disguising himself. And these disguises are presented as similes:
“he now looked exactly like a small coconut tree standing among all the big coconut trees.”
“he lay across the log and tucked in his feet so that he looked almost exactly like a seesaw.”
“He looked exactly like a wooden crocodile on the merry-go-round.”
“he made himself look very much like a long wooden bench with four legs.”
This is the End
The story of a very large crocodile that could make himself resemble a coconut tree and seesaw and wooden carousel ride and picnic bench fittingly concludes with one last simile. Except that this time it is not a metaphor for what he looks like, but a simile to describe what actually happens:
“the Enormous Crocodile crashed headfirst into the hot hot sun.
And he was sizzled up like a sausage.”
