The Hunger Games: Themes & Figurative Language

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things by stating that one is the other, without using 'like' or 'as'. Example: 'Time is a thief.'

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'. Example: 'Her smile is like sunshine.'

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What is personification?

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A figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract concepts. Example: 'The wind whispered through the trees.'

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words. Example: 'She sells seashells by the seashore.'

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What is hyperbole?

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An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally, used for emphasis or effect. Example: 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.'

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Identify the figurative language: 'Since that's the very weapon that might be my salvation.'

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Metaphor

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Identify the figurative language: 'Peeta's a whiz.'

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Metaphor

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Identify the figurative element: 'The community home would crush her like a bug.'

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Simile

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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.'

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Personification

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Identify the figurative language: 'Bouncing melodies back and forth between them like brightly colored balls.'

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Simile