The Hidden Oracle Analysis

The author, Rick Riordan, keeps the story, The Hidden Oracle, interesting by using several literary devices to aid understanding. One technique the author using to keep the story interesting is using various literary devices to aid the reader’s understanding. First, the author aids the reader’s understanding by using imagery. For example, Apollo and Meg meet the queen ant. Apollo thinks, “Her majesty was three times the size of her largest soldiers-a towering mass of black chitin and barbed appendages, with diaphanous oval wings folded against her back. Her eyes were swimming pools of onyx. Her abdomen was pulsing translucent sac filled with glowing eggs” (Riordan 263). The imagery shows details of the gigantic size of the queen alongside

An example is when Apollo meets Nico di Angelo and describes his appearance with his black trousers, Ramones T-short, black leather bomber jacket, and Stygian iron sword. As they converse Apollo contemplates Nico’s eyes “sharp and colorless, like broken glass” (Riordan 91). The simile adds on to the imagery of Nico’s dark and grungy appearance alongside hinting his evasive and serious personality with the comparing the sharpness and colorless eye to broken glass as his healing from being captured from Tartarus and learning to be more outgoing, which is explained in the previous books, aiding the reader’s envision and expectation of him. An additional example is when Meg and Apollo are confronted by the Germani. He illustrates their large and brooding size and weight, mostly made of muscle and further illustrates, “Their blond hair glinted like silver floss” (Riordan 270). The simile adds to the imagery of the Germani appearance, helping the reader envisions the sharp, contrasting color of their hair, and understands their serious and threatening tone. Therefore, the story is kept interesting by the author by using simile to aid the reader’s

One example is when Apollo, Chiron, and Meg are talking about the Oracle and Delphi, Meg ask whether the oracle is a place or a person. “’The original Dlphi was a place in Greece,’ I told her. ‘A cavern filled with volcanic fumes, where people would come to receive guidance from my priestess, the Pythia’” (Riordan 99). Apollo then answers Meg’s question that the Oracle of Delphi is both a place and a person. This dialogue focuses on answering Meg’s question about the Oracle of Delphi’s form, not only to explain to Meg, but to also explain and aid the reader’s understanding that the Oracle is both a person and a place. In addition, when Apollo, Meg, Chiron, and Rachel are discussing the whereabouts of Triumvirate Holdings and their involvement in the previous wars, Meg, confused, asks them for some more background information. Rachel patiently explains, “’Basically, the Roman demigods attacked this camp with giant catapultry things called onagers. It was all a big misunderstanding. Anyway, the weapons were paid by Triumvirate Holdings.’” (Riordan 197). The dialogue explicitly explains about the Triumvirate Holdings’ involvement in the second war and gives background information to one of the problems in the second war, the civil war between Roman and Greek demigods. This not only helps Meg, but also, the reader’s understanding because those who have not read the previous books will get the plot twist and