FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
By: Layne Alvarado
Simile
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic, or vivid, by using "like" or "as".
Ex. from The Hunger Games
One simile in The Hunger Games is found on page 54, "Could Gale and I have been eating blackberries only this morning? It seems like a lifetime ago. Like a long dream that deteriorated into a nightmare."
Metaphor
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
Ex. from The Hunger Games
Katniss, the Girl on Fire- She is the spark that set the districts alight with the idea of rebellion and the courage to change. She's never actually on fire... except for that bit where she gets hit with a fire ball in the Games... but other than that, it's a metaphor
Ex. from The Hunger Games
Katniss, the Girl on Fire- She is the spark that set the districts alight with the idea of rebellion and the courage to change. She's never actually on fire... except for that bit where she gets hit with a fire ball in the Games... but other than that, it's a metaphor
Personification
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Ex. from The Hunger Games
"The world begins to bend in alarming ways"
Ex. from The Hunger Games
"The world begins to bend in alarming ways"
Hyperbole
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Ex. from The Hunger Games
Ex. from The Hunger Games
Clove threw the knife in the back of the District 9 boy quicker than lightning.
Alliteration
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Ex. from The Hunger Games
"Desperately he struck out with strong strokes"
Ex. from The Hunger Games
"Desperately he struck out with strong strokes"