Hunger Games Quotes
Write DEFINITIONS of each word on the back of this paper.

precious gesture rebellion fixated elevated
traitor expect mercy grain starvation

1. Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their ____________.

2. How little chance we would stand of surviving another _________. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.”

3. The something unexpected happens. At least, I don’t ________it because I don’t think of District 12 as a place that cares about me.

4. But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim’s place, and now it seems I have become someone___________. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me.

5. It is an old and rarely used ___________ of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

6. “Someone who committed a crime. They cut her tongue so she can’t speak,” says Haymitch. “She’s probably a __________of some sort. Not likely you’d know her.”

7. The Gamemakers appeared early on the first day. Twenty or so men and women dressed in deep purple robes. They sit in the _____________stands that surround the gymnasium, sometimes wandering about to watch us, jotting down notes, other times eating at the endless banquet that has been set for them, ignoring the lot of us.

8. But they do seem to be keeping their eye on the District 12 tributes. Several times I’ve looked up to find one ______________on me.

9. Peeta rolls his eyes at Haymitch. “She has no idea. The effect she can have.” He runs his fingernail along the wood ____________in the table, refusing to look at me.

10.What on earth does he mean? People help me? When we were dying of___________, no one helped me! No one helped me except Peeta. Once I had something to barter with, things changed. I’m a tough trader. Or am I? What effect do I have?