English Language and Literature
MYP Year 2
Unit3: Between the Pages
PRACTICE ANALYSIS
TASK- Read the given excerpt and respond to the question below, ensuring that you use
evidence from the text and include detailed analysis.
The air seemed to fold and bend around him. He became a hologram, then a
wind, then he was gone, leaving only the smell of fresh-pressed grapes
lingering behind.
Chiron smiled at me, but he looked tired and strained. “Sit, Percy, please.
And Grover.”
We did.
Chiron laid his cards on the table, a winning hand he hadn’t gotten to use.
“Tell me, Percy,” he said. “What did you make of the hellhound?”
Just hearing the name made me shudder.
Chiron probably wanted me to say, Heck, it was nothing. I eat hellhounds
for breakfast. But I didn’t feel like lying.
“It scared me,” I said. “If you hadn’t shot it, I’d be dead.”
“You’ll meet worse, Percy. Far worse, before you’re done.”
“Done…with what?”
“Your quest, of course. Will you accept it?”
I glanced at Grover, who was crossing his fingers.
“Um, sir,” I said, “you haven’t told me what it is yet.”
Chiron grimaced. “Well, that’s the hard part, the details.”
Thunder rumbled across the valley. The storm clouds had now reached the
edge of the beach. As far as I could see, the sky and the sea were boiling
together.
“Poseidon and Zeus,” I said. “They’re fighting over something valuable…
something that was stolen, aren’t they?”
Chiron and Grover exchanged looks.
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Chiron sat forward in his wheelchair. “How did you know that?”
My face felt hot. I wished I hadn’t opened my big mouth. “The weather since
Christmas has been weird, like the sea and the sky are fighting. Then I talked
to Annabeth, and she’d overheard something about a theft. And…I’ve also
been having these dreams.”
“I knew it,” Grover said.
“Hush, satyr,” Chiron ordered.
“But it is his quest!” Grover’s eyes were bright with excitement. “It must
be!”
“Only the Oracle can determine.” Chiron stroked his bristly beard.
“Nevertheless, Percy, you are correct. Your father and Zeus are having their
worst quarrel in centuries.
They are fighting over something valuable that was stolen.
To be precise: a lightning bolt.”
I laughed nervously. “A what?”
“Do not take this lightly,” Chiron warned. “I’m not talking about some
tinfoil-covered zigzag you’d see in a second-grade play. I’m talking about a
two-foot-long cylinder of high-grade celestial bronze, capped on both ends
with god-level explosives.”
“Oh.”
“Zeus’s master bolt,” Chiron said, getting worked up now. “The symbol of
his power, from which all other lightning bolts are patterned. The first weapon
made by the Cyclopes for the war against the Titans, the bolt that sheered the
top off Mount Etna and hurled Kronos from his throne; the master bolt, which
packs enough power to make mortal hydrogen bombs look like firecrackers.”
“And it’s missing?”
Question: Evaluate any two literary techniques in Excerpt 3. Explain how these techniques enhance the
reader’s understanding of the scene?
Identify two literary techniques
Use examples from the text to evaluate how each technique makes the scene clearer or more
engaging.
Explain how these techniques contribute to the overall meaning or impact of the scene.
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