It's not a simile, if that helps. I just picked it and was wrong
The literary term used in this passage is hyperbole, which exaggerates the action of the church jumping over its weather-cock to emphasize the intensity of the movement.
Personification
alliteration
personification
allusion
Please provide the specific passage from "Huckleberry Finn" with the underlined portion for me to identify the literary term contained within it.
oxymoron
simile
it's hard
allusion
the devil
metaphor
alliteration
personification