Figurative Language in the Hunger Games

“Primʼs face is as fresh as a raindrop, as lovely as the primrose for which she was named for."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

“...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.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

“So I learned to hold my tongue...”

• simile

• idiom

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“...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.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“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.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3