Literary Blog Assignment#2

The quote I chose from the story is “Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. I am so cool.” (Riordan 47) This quote was said by the Sun God Apollo, he was with Percy and the Hunters to give them a ride back to Camp Half-Blood. The quote is actually a haiku Apollo said, because Apollo loves haiku poems ever since he visited Japan.  The metaphor in this quote is “Green grass breaks through snow.” (Riordan 47). This is a metaphor because grass can’t literally break through snow it’s impossible. Snow weighs a lot more then grass so that could not happen. I think he used a metaphor to exaggerate his words. He used this to say the grass is starting to show. It could also mean the winter is fading away and spring is coming. Another literary term the Rick Ridordan uses is imagery. When he says “Green grass breaks through snow” (Riordan 47) he is using visual imagery to describe the grass. I chose this quote because I think it is just a really random part in the book. Its 3 sentences that have nothing to do with each other. This quote is not really important to the story because it doesn’t really have anything to do with the main story line. However, it does speak of Artemis which she is pretty influential to the story line because if she had not been kidnapped the story would be completely different because the main purpose of the quest is to find Artemis.  I chose this quote because it is quite random and I think most things in my life up until this point have been out of the blue and somewhat random. It also does not really make sense and I think that many things that happen to me don’t really make any sense! So this was a memorable part of the book and that’s another reason why I chose it.