Hunger Games Vocabulary Words

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Across
  1. 1. Descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses: taste, touch, smell, hearing, sight.
  2. 3. Characterization When an author hints at a character trait. Example: He helped her (this implies that he is nice).
  3. 5. Irony When the audience knows more than a character(s) on stage.
  4. 9. A society characterized by oppression, misery, and often totalitarian government.
  5. 12. Jackers Genetically engineered wasps with powerful venom, used as a weapon in the Hunger Games by sponsors.
  6. 13. A person punished by the Capitol, typically a traitor, whose tongue has been cut out.
  7. 14. The emotional tone the writer or narrator conveys in a story.
  8. 15. A participant that is selected to compete in the Hunger Games from one of the districts.
  9. 18. The highly advanced affluent (rich) city governing Panem.
  10. 19. Irony When something happens that is completely different than the expected occurrence.
  11. 22. An experienced past victor who guides and advises a tribute in the Hunger Games
  12. 23. A tribute who has won the Hunger Games and survived
  13. 24. Genetically altered creatures that pose threats to the tributes in the arena.
  14. 25. Contradictions in which something that was supposed to happen is replaced with an unpredictable occurrence.
Down
  1. 2. The controlled environment where the Hunger Games take place.
  2. 4. Characterization When an author directly states a character trait. Example: He was nice.
  3. 6. of Treason The treaty was signed between the Capitol and 12 districts.
  4. 7. A symbolic bird that becomes significant emblem of rebellion
  5. 8. Irony When something is said that is the opposite of what is meant.
  6. 10. Support, usually in the form of gifted or supplies, sent to a tribute in the Hunger Games by sponsors.
  7. 11. The fictional nation in which the Hunger Games trilogy is set.
  8. 16. Twelve regions controlled by the Capitol
  9. 17. The central location in the Hunger Games arena is where supplies and weapons are placed.
  10. 20. a “token” from the Capitol - a year's worth of grain and oil for one person • (in ancient Greece and Rome) a small tablet of wood or bone used as a token.
  11. 21. The annual event where tributes are chosen for the Hunger Games.