The valley marched all the way up to the water.

The roof had cracked open like an eggshell.

There was no horse or eagle on the beach, just lightning making false daylight and twenty-foot waves pounding the dunes like artillery.

In "Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief," when Percy talks about his feelings on finding out he's really a demigod as "a tidal wave of mixed emotions," what kind of language tool is being used?

but leather that looked like ......well Caucasian human skin. What piece of figurative language is this? (Hint...has like in it)

Grover was trembling. He'd started eating pinochle cards like potato chips.

Grover was trembling. He'd started eating pinochle cards like potato chips. What type of figurative language is the underlined portion?

What does the simile "like a bull charging" suggest about the Minotaur's actions during the battle scene?

When Percy says his quest is like "opening Pandora's box," what kind of language is he using?

Describing the Minotaur as "a mountain of muscle" is what kind of speech figure?

The sentence "her eyes were lasers, boring a hole through me" is an example of what type of figure of speech?

What type of figurative language is in this quote from chapter 6: "The showers acted up, too, and together all the fixtures sprayed the camouflage girls right out of the bathroom, spinning them around like pieces of garbage being washed away."

What type of figurative language is in the following sentence from chapter 6: "I’d been in plenty of fights before, but this big girl Clarisse had hands like iron."

In Chapter 1 of Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief, the narrator says, "My knees were jelly. My hands were shaking so bad I almost dropped the sword." This excerpt contains an example of what type of figurative language?

In 'Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief,' what type of figurative language is used when Percy describes the Minotaur as 'a mountain of muscle'?

What does the simile 'like a bull charging' suggest about the Minotaur's actions during the battle scene in 'Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief'?

In 'Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief,' when Percy says his quest is like 'opening Pandora's box,' what kind of language is he using?

The sentence 'her eyes were lasers, boring a hole through me' in 'Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief' is an example of what type of figure of speech?

In 'Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief,' what type of figurative language is used in the phrase 'the wind howled like a wolf'?

What type of figurative language is used in 'Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief' when Percy describes his emotions as 'a tidal wave of mixed emotions'?

In 'Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief,' what does the metaphor 'a tidal wave of mixed emotions' suggest about Percy's feelings?

Which figure of speech is used in 'Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief' when Percy describes the sky as 'angry and dark'?

In 'Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief,' what type of figurative language is used when Percy says, 'The sea was a monster waiting to swallow me whole'?

What does the metaphor 'the sea was a monster waiting to swallow me whole' in 'Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief' imply about the sea?