Decide what type of descriptive language is used in each example. And his father, who was puro Mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy. " The phrase sullen as a toad is an example of a. He'd swaggered into the living room but had stopped cold when he saw Alfonso and asked, not joking but with real concern, "Did you hurt your head at school?" The word swaggered is an example of a. His thumbs were tired and wrinkled and pink, the way they got when he stayed in the bathtub too long. The words wrinkled and pink are examples of.