Hunger Games
HUNTING BOW AND ARROW
This shows Katniss’ strength against others.
a comparison of two unrelated things using the connecting words like, as, seems
What is a simile?
Even so, I always take a moment to listen carefully for the hum that means the fence is live. Right now, it’s as silent as a stone.
What is a similie?
MOCKINGJAY PIN
The mockingjay represents defiance against the Capitol and President Snow.
the repeating of the same beginning sound in a group of words
What is alliteration?
The food’s wonderful, with the cheese seeping into the warm bread and the berries bursting in our mouths.
What does Katniss do at the end of her private training session? What are the effects or results of her actions?
She fires an arrow straight toward the Gamemakers that skewers that apple in the pig’s mouth. Then she walks out. Katniss gets an eleven.
BREAD/FOOD
Food represents survival in Panem. Panem is from the Latin word for bread. The Capitol has a massive abundance of food which shows its wealth.
words that imitate sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
It’s no good. One hour, two, three pass, and my eyelids refuse to get heavy.
What is personification?
What are some qualities of a dystopian society?
Government Control (by fear)
Conformity
Surveillance & Propaganda
Hero Questions Society
Backstory of War, Revolution, Destruction
Totalitarian Government
Why is Katniss called the “girl on fire”?
Katniss gains her nickname when she is being interviewed by Caesar Flickerman, and her dress goes up in flames when she twirls. Thus, she is deemed the 'Girl on Fire' because she was literally on fire.
THREE FINGER SALUTE
"It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means goodbye to someone you love."
Katniss Everdeen
Later it was adopted as a symbol of the resistance to The Capitol.
a common saying whose meaning can't be understood from the individual words in it (expression)
What is an idiom?
The truth is, I feel a million miles from another living soul
What is a hyperbole?
Why do the Hunger Games exist?
The purposes of the Hunger Games are to provide entertainment for the Capitol and to remind the districts of the Capitol's power and its lack of remorse or forgiveness for the failed rebellion of the current competitors' ancestor.
How do Rue and Katniss signal each other?
With mockingjay calls
13 DISTRICTS
During the colonial period, a huge chunk of North America was also split into thirteen colonies. As colonies, these regions reported to the British, as that region of North America was then considered part of the domain of the British Empire.
Just as in The Hunger Games, colonists in North America supplied folks back in England with goods such as cotton and tobacco; and much like the Capitol, the British government often imposed rules, laws, and restrictions on the colonies that the people living there felt to be pretty unfair.
giving human qualities or actions to something that is not human
What is personification?
But you’d really be a sitting duck at one of those.
What is a metaphor?