Hunger Games Figurative Language

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoeia

“The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages” (pg. 44).

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• onomatopoeia

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

“The team works on me until late afternoon, turning my skin to glowing satin…” (pg. 119).

• simile

• idiom

• personification

• metaphor

“Here the daisies guard you from every harm…” (pg. 235).

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• personification

“Or has she already leaving the weight of started to slip away, the world on my sister’s fragile shoulders” (pg. 53).

• idiom

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

We have to stand for a few minutes in the doorway of the train while the cameras gobble up our images, then we’re allowed inside…” (pg. 41).

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• personification