Literary Devices - Hunger Games 1

“...I always take a moment to listen carefully for the hum that means the fence is live. Right now, it’s silent as a stone.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“So I learned to hold my tongue...”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“...and turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“A thicket of berry bushes protects it from unwanted eyes.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

“Attendance is mandatory unless you are on death’s door.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“The camera crews, perched like buzzards on rooftops, only add to the effect.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“He tells the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

“He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land....”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

“...right now District 12 is the laughingstock of Panem, and he knows it.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“That’s how I feel now...totally stunned as the name bounces around the inside of my skull.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3