Figurative Language in The Lightning Thief

"Mrs. Dodds was a sand castle in a power fan."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Pencil cactuses grew in the corner like skeleton hands"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

"Finally, when our English teacher asked me for the millionth time why I was too lazy to study for our spelling test, I snapped."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"A shadow slid across the lighted glass of Brunner's office door, the shadow of something much taller than my wheelchair-bound teacher, holding something that looked suspiciously like an archer's bow."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"The guy reeked like moldy garlic pizza wrapped in gym shorts."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"The Fury I'd hit-slammed came at me again, talons ready, but I swung Riptide and she broke open like a piñata"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“Just as it hit me, as I stumbled backward and felt its razor-sharp claws ripping through my armor, there was a cascade of thwacking sounds, like forty pieces of paper being ripped one after the other”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3