Figurative Language
The trees danced in the wind.
What is a Personification
Nancy Bobifet is throwing peanut butter and ketchup sandwich chunks at Grover.
What is a challenge?
Using what you already know + text evidence.
What you can tell, even though the author does not directly say it.
What is an inference?
Two mythological characters that Percy has had to fight so far.
Who is Mrs. Dodds and the Minotaur?
BONUS POINTS!!
BONUS POINTS!!
She was as busy as a bee.
What is a Simile (uses 'like' or 'as')
Percy desperately wants to punch Nancy in the face.
What is a response?
Half man, half bull.
What is a Minotaur?
The God of Wine.
Who is the camp director Mr D.
" . "
Who is Sally Jackson (Percys mother)
Time is money
What is a Metaphor.
He fights his feelings and finds energy to drag Grover to safety.
“... there was Grover, needing my help, so I managed to haul him up and stagger down into the valley.” (pages 55–56)
What is a response?
BONUS POINTS!!!!
BONUS POINTS!!!
Percy over hears ______ and ________ talking behind his back; discussing his safety.
Who is Mr. Brunner and Grover.
The beach where Percy and his mother Sally went and stayed in a cabin.
What is Montauk?
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter
What is Alliteration.
The Minotaur makes Percy’s mother dissolve, and is about to do the same thing to Grover.
“The monster hunched over, snuffling my best friend, as if he were about to lift Grover up and make him dissolve too.” (page 53)
What is a challenge?
a prediction or forecast of the future.
What is a prophecy?
_____ said "Maybe if you hurry with the seven-layer dip...And maybe if the kid apologizes for interrupting my poker game."
Who is Gabe Ugliano.
What is a gist?
My book bag weighs a ton.
What is a Hyperbole.
Percy decides to fight the Minotaur instead of running away from it.
“I couldn’t allow that. I stripped off my red rain jacket. ‘Hey!’ I screamed, waving the jacket, running to one side of the monster.” (page 53)
What is a response?
Someone who writes story's. (What Sally wanted to be.)
What is a novelist?
______ said "What will people think of your 'science' two thousand years from now?" "
Who is Mr. D - the god of wine.
Percy wants to defend Grover by standing up to Nancy Bobofit
“ ‘That’s it.’ I started to get up, but Grover pulled me back to my seat.”
answer options: challenge, response, inference, prophecy, or gist
what is a response?