Figurative Language in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

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

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

It's a thousand degrees in here!

• Personification

• Simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

Snap!

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

There was a blinding flash, a jaw-rattling boom!, and our car exploded.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

"But the ocean seemed to have forgotten." What type of figurative language is this an example of?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

"Then a much closer noise, like mallets in the sand." What type of figurative language is this an example of?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

"Her smile is as warm as a quilt." What type of figurative language is this an example of?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

"Mrs. Dodds was a sand castle in a power fan." What type of figurative language is this an example of?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

"The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed clean through her body as if she were made of water. Hisss!" The "hisss" at the end of the that quote is an example of __________.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language is used in the phrase 'The wind whispered secrets through the trees' from Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief?

• A) Simile

• B) Metaphor

• C) Personification

• D) Onomatopoeia