The Hunger Games Literary Analysis

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In ¨The Hunger Games”by Suzanne Collins , the author uses many literary devices and linguistic elements.Detailing the book and making it understandable.She expands the environment and informs the reader with more features.
¨The Hunger Games¨ has many environments such as District 12 the Capitol and the arena.For example, Katniss describes the Capitol as she is entering it “The cameras haven’t lied about it’s grandeur.If anything, they have not quite captured the magnificence of the glistening buildings in a rainbow of hues that tower into the air, the shiny cars that roll down down the wide paved streets, the oddly dressed people with bizarre hair and painted faces who have never missed a meal” (59).This is Katniss as she is beginning to set

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