MYP-4 LAL Revision Worksheet-3

1. Read the following paragraph from Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan and then answer
the question:
“Your time is up,” she hissed. Then the weirdest thing happened. Her eyes began to
glow like barbecue coals. Her fingers stretched, turning into talons. Her jacket
melted into large, leathery wings. She wasn’t human. She was a shrivelled hag with
bat wings and claws and a mouth full of yellow fangs, and she was about to slice me
to ribbons.

i) Which part of the text is a simile?

a)Then the weirdest thing happened.
b)Her eyes began to glow like barbecue coals.
c)She was a shrivelled hag.
Ii)Which is the main clue that this is a first person narrative?
a)'She was about to slice me to ribbons'
b) 'She was a shrivelled hag with bat wings'
c)'Her eyes began to glow like barbecue coals

2. Identify 3 words that have a negative connotation in the passage given below and comment on the
effect achieved by the author.

The house felt like a ship at sea, battered by the gale that came roaring
across the open marsh. Windows were rattling everywhere and there was the
sound of moaning down all the chimneys of the house and whistling through
every nook and cranny.

3. What is the tone of this passage? How does the writer achieve this tone?

When the old man looked at me with his vulture eye a cold feeling went up and down my
back; even my blood became cold. And so, I finally decided I had to kill the old man and
close that eye forever.

4.Comment on the figurative language in the sentence given below.

‘The forked lightning flashed, ripping open the brooding pitch-black sky with its blinding
claws.’

5. Read the passage and then respond to the questions. Each question will ask you to make
a logical inference based on textual details. Explain your answer by referencing the text.

Every day after work Paul took his muddy boots off on the steps of the front porch. Alice would have a
fit if the boots made it so far as the welcome mat. He then took off his dusty overalls and threw them
into a plastic garbage bag; Alice left a new garbage bag tied to the porch railing for him every morning.
On his way in the house, he dropped the garbage bag off at the washing machine and went straight up
the stairs to the shower as he was instructed. He would eat dinner with her after he was “presentable,”
as Alice had often said.

a. What type of job does Paul do? How do you know this?
b. Describe Alice: What in the text supports your description?

c. What’s the point of view of the extract?