The Hunger Games 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 :

Peeta's a whiz.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

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 phrase "District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety" used by Katniss is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

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When Katniss refers to her sister's cat as "the world's ugliest cat," what figurative language is being used?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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Which of the following is an example of a metaphor from "The Hunger Games"?

• "The square fills rapidly with people trying to escape the heat."

• "Katniss is as quick as a fox."

• "The woods became her refuge."

• "Her words are like venom."

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What does the term "reaping" symbolically refer to in Chapter 1 of "The Hunger Games"?

• Harvesting crops

• Selecting tributes

• Celebrating a festival

• Winning a competition

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In Chapter 1, Katniss describes the Seam as "gray." What does this description likely symbolize?

• Joy and vibrancy

• Dullness and oppression

• Wealth and prosperity

• Natural beauty

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Suzanne Collins includes the figurative language, "Most of the other tributes sit alone, like lost sheep," (97) to...

• make the reader see that Katniss and Peeta look silly for spending so much time together.

• make the reader understand how isolated all of the tributes feel, working against each other.

• bring in references to farm animals and the other tributes as they sit and each lunch for the reader.

• show the reader how the other tributes act around each other and how they are ludicrously by themselves.