Here are SOME of the similes from Hoot:
pg. 86 Tomorrow is as good a day as any. Roy thought.
pg. 100 He had quickness and brains on his side, but Dana was big enough to crush him like a grape.
Pg. 102 It was amazing how rapidly schools were empty after the final bell as if someone pulled the plug under a giant whirlpool.
That's only some of them because there are a lot more.
All similes are metaphors but not all metaphors are similes.A metaphor is a comparison between two or more dissimilar things. Similes are too, however similes do so by making the comparison using the words like or as.
all of them
Almost all of them .
Someone did
no
the soles of his bare feet looked as black as barbecue coals.
Personification uses metaphors in its descriptions.
there are non.
No
To sound intelligent.
Yes it does
no because similes compare two things using like or as