Hunger Games Terms
A political system in which the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible.
What is totalitarianism?
During the tributes' training session, this is the skill that Katniss privately demonstrate to the Gamemakers that earns her a score of 11.
What is a perfect shot with an arrow into the apple of the Gamemakers' roasted pig.
The underlying message or central idea of the story.
What is theme?
"What every household needs: a shower like a car wash, keys ticking like a bomb, luggage on a leash?’ By now, as you can see, it’d become something of a family joke, our Thomas Edison Mami, our Benjamin Franklin Mom.”
What is "Daughter of Invention"?
Signal Phrase Integration
Context: In "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," the narrator asks the reader questions throughout the story.
Quote: Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy? No? Then let me describe one more thing.
What is
The narrator directly asks, "Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy? No? Then let me describe one more thing."
A social-psychological process where a group or an individual is blamed for the problems, misfortunes, or suffering of the community.
What is scapegoat mechanism?
The character in "Daughter of Invention" that represents creativity and adaptation.
Who is the narrator/daughter/cukita?
A literary device in which a story, poem, or picture is used to present a hidden meaning, often a moral, political, or spiritual one.
What is allegory?
"I pull on a thick, fleecy nightgown and climb into bed. It takes me about five seconds to realize I'll never fall asleep."
What is The Hunger Games?
Seamless Integration
Context: The story "Pancakes" as Jill is describing the breakfast rush.
But no one left. They just kept coming, storming through the restaurant like Cossacks.”
What is
The customers "just kept coming, storming through the restaurant like Cossacks."
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is propoganda?
The primary reason it is such a shocking event when Prim's name is drawn at the Reaping.
What is she had only one entry into the Reaping bowl, making her selection highly improbable.
A type of speculative fiction that offers a vision of a potential future characterized by oppressive control and societal decay.
What is dystopian genre?
"But as time goes on they begin to realize that even if the child could be released, it would not get much good of its freedom: a little vague pleasure of warmth and food, no doubt, but little more. It is too degraded and imbecile to know any real joy."
What is "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"?
Signal phrase integration
Context: The flashback Katniss has of Peeta being kind to her
Quote: "The boy took one look back to the bakery as if checking that the coast was clear, then, his attention back on the big, he threw a loaf of bread in my direction."
What is
Katniss recalls, "The boy took one look back to the bakery as if checking that the coast was clear, then, his attention back on the big, he threw a loaf of bread in my direction."
A metaphor referring to a superficial means of appeasement. It describes how a government provides its populace with basic food and entertainment to keep them content and docile, diverting their attention from larger political or social problems, or from the failures of the state.
What is breads and circuses?
The two options that the citizens have in "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas."
What is to stay and endure the suffering child or to walk away and leave the city?
The central struggle in the story (e.g., person vs. self, person vs. person, person vs. society, person vs. nature).
What is conflict?
"I'm not disappointed. While the table is empty, along board off to the side has been laid with at least twenty dishes."
What is The Hunger Games?
Seamless Integration
Context: Cinna gives Katniss the mockingjay pin.
Quote: "I think I'm finished when Cinna pulls the gold mockingjay pin from his pocket. I had completely forgotten about it."
What is
Katniss gets dressed for the Hunger Games and Cinna gives her "the gold mockingjay pin from his pocket."
A psychological condition in which a person or animal has learned to behave helplessly, even when they have the opportunity to avoid an unpleasant or harmful circumstance, because they have been subjected to repeated stressful events over which they had no control.
What is learned helplessness?
Haymitch's last piece of advice to Peeta and Katniss before the games.
(4 things)
What is run away from the cornucopia, distance yourself from other tributes, find water, stay alive.
A specific name of a type of literary element where the author shows us the character’s traits through what they say, do, think, look like, and how others react to them.
What is indirect characterization?
“I guess she was right. Downstairs, I found him setting up a brand new electric typewriter on the kitchen table. It was even better than the one I’d been begging to get like my mother’s.”
What is "Daughter of Invention"?
Signal phrase integration
Context: Katniss volunteers as tribute.
Quote: "When they televise the replay of the reapings tonight, everyone will make note of my tears, and I'll be marked as an easy target."
As Katniss volunteers as tribute, she thinks, "When they televise the replay pf the reapings tonight, everyone will make note of my tears, and I'll be marked as an easy target."