Bouki over a Barrel Fig Language

"cotton bolls started popping out around him like firecrackers on New Year's Eve."

• people were shooting fireworks that looked like cotton

• cotton bolls were popping open to show the white fluff inside.

• cotton was shooting into the sky.

"surveryed the cotton field that glimmered like a snowdrift all the way to the bayou"

• cotton field looked like snowy field

• it snowed on top of the cotton

• it snowed while the cotton was growing

"Lapin's sack was as empty as a hatched egg"

• Lapin's sack was empty

• Lapin's sack had an egg in it

• Lapin sack hatched.

"belly stuffed fuller than a squirrel's cheeks"

• his belly was stuffed with acorns

• his belly was very full and big

• his belly was empty

"working slower than a slug on Sunday"

• working on sunday

• working fast

• working slow

"emptier than the church basket come the day after Christmas"

• the barrels were empty because nothing was in it.

• the barrels were the church baskets.

• the barrels were empty because it was Christmas

"a trick popped in Lapin's head like a popcorn kernel in a frying pan"

• he came up with a trick quickly

• the trick was a popcorn kernel

• the trick was a frying pan.

"an oily puddle big as the Gulf of Mexico"

• the puddle was the gulf of mexico

• the puddle was an ocean

• the puddle was BIG

"a trick popped in Lapin's head like a popcorn kernel in a frying pan"

• literal

• non literal

"hoisted the barrels up"

• non literal

• literal