As Much Clatter As Twenty Pairs of Peasants' Clogs (Auditory Imagery)
As a puppet made of wood, Pinocchio makes a racket when he runs from Geppetto. Collodi writes that Pinocchio's wooden feet knock against the pavement and make "as much clatter as twenty pairs of peasants' clogs." In this example of auditory imagery, Collodi illustrates the loud clatter of the puppet's feet by likening the sound to twenty people walking in wooden shoes.
An Immense Nose (Visual Imagery)
While carving his puppet's face, Geppetto discovers a curious attribute of the wood: it can grow. Collodi writes: "He then proceeded to carve the nose, but no sooner had he made it than it began to grow. And it grew, and grew, and grew, until in a few minutes it had become an immense nose that seemed as if it would never end." In this example of visual imagery, Collodi captures the surreal occurrence of the puppet's nose lengthening far beyond the dimensions Geppetto carved.
As If A Sack of Wooden Ladles Had Been Thrown (Auditory Imagery)
After getting his feet wet while out begging for bread, Pinocchio returns to Geppetto's room and puts his feet up on a portable fire. While sleeping, Pinocchio burns off his feet. In the morning, Geppetto knocks on the door and the puppet jumps up to open it; however, the footless Pinocchio collapses, "and the noise he made in falling was as if a sack of wooden ladles had been thrown from a fifth story." In this example of auditory imagery, Collodi emphasizes the absurd sound of the foolish puppet's wooden limbs striking the hard floor by making a humorous comparison to a bag of utensils falling from a great height.
Puppet Made of Plaster (Visual Imagery)
While out at sea, Pinocchio is captured in an ugly green fisherman's net and pulled in with a catch of fish. Mistaking Pinocchio for a rare fish he has never eaten before, the fisherman prepares the puppet by coating him in flour and planning to lower him into hot oil to fry until crisp. Pinocchio implores him with his eyes, but the green fisherman "plunge[s] him five or six times in the flour, until he [is] white from head to foot and look[s] like a puppet made of plaster." In this example of visual imagery, Collodi paints a cartoonish portrait of the unfortunate puppet by likening his all-over flour coating to plaster.
