Novel Study: The Lightning Thief: Analyzing Characters’ Dialogue

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, give students a chance to think about the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques with this engaging extension activity. This two-page worksheet invites readers to explore the way the characters communicate with each other in the story and how that impacts the plot, characters, and reader’s understanding of the story. Students will read about the author’s use of verbal irony and sarcasm to develop funny and dramatic situations, and then they will set out to find examples in the text. Readers will need to identify and record three examples from the story, noting the context and impact each example has on the characters and plot. For additional resources related to this novel, be sure to check out the set of novel study worksheets for The Lightning Thief.