The Hunger Games Figurative Language

“Prim’s face is as fresh as a raindrop, as lovely as the primrose for which she was named” (pg. 3).

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

“Sitting at Prim’s knees, guarding her, is the world’s ugliest cat” (pg. 3).

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

“He [Buttercup] has stopped hissing at me” (pg. 4).

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoeia

“Right now, it’s silent as a stone” (pg. 5).

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

“When I was younger, I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12…” (pg. 6).

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

“A thicket of berry bushes protects it from unwanted eyes” (pg. 6).

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

“Attendance is mandatory unless you are on death’s door” (pg. 16).

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

“The camera crews, perched like buzzards on rooftops, only add to the effect” (pg. 16).

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• simile

“There was a clatter in the bakery and I heard the woman screaming again and the sound of a blow, and I vaguely wondered what was going on” (pg. 30).

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

“His [hands] are as solid and warm as those loaves of bread” (pg. 33).

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom