Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Analyze Language and Point of View: The Lightning Thief, Chapter 9

“But its presence didn’t feel evil, like my demonic math teacher Mrs. Dodds or the Minotaur.

 

What word in this sentence best helps in understanding the meaning of demonic?

“Your father’s bitterest rival is Zeus, Lord of the Sky. Your mother knew better than to trust you in an airplane. You would be in Zeus’s domain. You would never come down again alive.”

 

What does the word domain mean as it is used in this sentence? 

“Somebody else who wants to take over?” I guessed. “Yes, quite. Someone who harbors a grudge, who has been unhappy with his lot since the world was divided eons ago, whose kingdom would grow powerful with the deaths of millions.”

 

Use a print or online dictionary. Copy the meaning of the word harbors as it is used in this sentence.

“The article took me almost an hour to read, because the angrier I got, the more the words floated around on the page.”

 

Based on your understanding of the bolded figurative language above, how does Percy feel when he reads the article about his car accident?

"....because the angrier I got, the more the words floated around on the page."

 

How does the bolded figurative language above add to the reader’s understanding of how Percy feels?

“Unless someone intervenes, unless the master bolt is found and returned to Zeus before the solstice, there will be war.”

 

Part A
What is the prefix and root of the word intervenes? You may use your affix list as a resource. Make sure you type the word part and its meaning.

 

Use what you know about these word parts to write a definition of intervene, in your own words.

Carefully read these two sentences:

“Finally, Eddie, our building super, delivered the worst line of all: And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end.”

 

Finally, Eddie, our building super, delivered the worst line of all: And you shall be unsuccessful in saving what matters most, in the end.

 

The words in bold have very similar meanings. How does the author’s choice to use the word fail affect our understanding of the first sentence given all that we know up to this point in the text?

Read pages 133–134 from “Chiron smiled at me . . .” to “. . . that’s the hard part, the details.”

 

How has Percy’s point of view toward Mr. Brunner/Chiron changed in this chapter from the last?

How does the author develop Percy’s point of view toward Mr. Brunner/Chiron in this excerpt?

Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?