Figurative Language in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Figurative Language in Percy Jackson

Simile

• "It was a lot bigger than I'd realized--four stories tall, sky blue with white trim, like an upscale seaside resort.

• What is being compared?

Multiple Choice

What other type of figurative language is used in the sentence: "It was a lot bigger than I'd realized--four stories tall, sky blue with a white trim, like an upscale seaside resort."?

• imagery

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Alliteration

• I watched the satyr playing his pipe.

• His music was causing lines of bugs to leave the strawberry patch in every direction, like refugees fleeing a fire.

• There were six empty bunk beds with silk sheets turned down.

Multiple Choice

This is also an example of...?

"His music was causing lines of bugs to leave the strawberry patch in every direction, like refugees fleeing a fire."

• Metaphor

• Simile

Metaphor

"The beginnings of an idea--a tiny, hopeful fire--started forming in my mind."

Personification

• Giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• "The place felt so sad and lonely..."

Repetition

• "I looked around at the campers' faces, some sullen and suspicious, some grinning stupidly, some eyeing me as if they were waiting for a chance to pick my pockets."

• What word(s) is being repeated? Why?

Multiple Choice

What other form of figurative language is used in this sentence: "I looked around at the campers' faces, some sullen and suspicious, some grinning stupidly, some eyeing me as if they were waiting for a chance to pick my pockets." ?

• imagery

• personification

• idiom

Idiom

• a common "saying" used by a group of people/culture/region

• Ex: It's raining cats & dogs