What are some examples of figurative language in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry?

An example of figurative language in the first chapter of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is "Before us the narrow, sun-splotched road wound like a lazy red serpent" (page numbers vary by edition). The author is comparing the winding, muddy road to a serpent in a simile (a comparison that uses "like" or "as"). Another example of figurative language is the description of L.T. Morrison in Chapter Two: "The man was a human tree in height, towering high above Papa's six feet two inches" (page numbers vary by edition). Using a metaphor, a comparison that does not use "like" or "as," the author compares Mr. Morrison  to a tree. In Chapter Three, the author uses an example of personification, another form of figurative language: "At first the rain had merely splotched the dust, which seemed to be rejoicing in its own resiliency and laughing at the heavy drops thudding against it" (page numbers vary by edition). In this example, the dust has human qualities, as it seems to be happily resisting the rain. Personification involves giving human qualities or emotions to inanimate objects--in this case, dust.