The Hunger Games: Themes & Figurative Language

Identify the figurative language :

Since that's the very weapon that might be my salvation.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Identify the figurative language :

I continue running until the woods have hidden me from the other tributes.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Identify the figurative language :

We were about as hard to follow as a herd of cattle.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Identify the figurative language :

Peeta's a whiz.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

Identify the figurative language :

Bouncing melodies back and forth between them like brightly colored balls.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

Identify the figurative language :

This is the nature of the tracker jacker venom, so carefully created to target the place where fear lives in your brain.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

The following excerpt applies to which themes in The Hunger Games? (Choose 2)

But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers.

-Katniss Everdeen

• Political Oppression

• Appearances

• Coming of Age

• Marriage

The following excerpt applies to which themes in The Hunger Games? (Choose 3)

We both know they have to have their victor.

-Katniss Everdeen

• Sacrifice

• Political Oppression

• Appearances

• Rite of Passage

Identify the figurative element below:

"The community home would crush her like a bug."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Which themes (3) does this quote mostly align with

"I volunteer!" I gasp. "I volunteer as tribute!" (

• sacrifice

• love

• rite of passage

• survival