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Analyze Figurative Language: Chapters 4 & 5

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Question 1

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Which type of figurative language compares things where something is something else?

simile

metaphor

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Question 2

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"My mouth felt like a scorpion had been using it for a nest." Percy's _________ is compared to a scorpion's nest to explain how the pain is comparible to being stung by scorpions.

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Question 5

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"On this side of the house, the valley marched all the way up to the water." What does this mean? "Marched" is something humans do. This means that Percy looks down the valley he can see the _________ at the end without any interruptions.

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Question 6

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What type of figurative language was used in the question above?

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Question 7

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"I waited in the dark for what seemed like forever." Percy did not really wait forever. The book says that it seemed like forever because he feels like he has been waiting ________________ and was feeling impatient.

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Question 8

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Check the examples of hyperbole.

I am so hungry, I could eat a horse.

I am so hungry, I could eat a sandwich.

I answered his questions 1,000 times.

I answered the 100 question test.

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Question 12

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Excerpt: Chapter five starts with "Down at the end of the porch, two men sat across from each other at a card table..." and ending with ".... Mr. D turned to me. 'Cabin eleven, Percy Jackson. And mind your manners.'" What is the gist of this excerpt? Percy wakes up at and learns he is a .

Question 3

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"He would plant a disease in my brain that would leave me wearing a strait-jacket in a rubber room for the rest of my life." The visions that Mr. D shows Percy are compared to a disease because Percy thinks that Mr. D could show him things that could drive him ________.

Question 4

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Please check the following answers that are examples of onomatopoeia.

engine

purr

buzz

hiss

dog

Question 9

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What hint is given about Grover when he lets out a "Blaa-ha-ha!" sound?

He is laughing

He is a goat 

He has asthma

He is a donkey

Question 10

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Chiron is

Mrs. Dobbs

Mr. Brunner

Annabeth

Percy's father

Question 11

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Chiron is a centaur, so he is half

dolphin

goat

donkey

horse