https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca Diction Detective en-us 2019-11-05 18:15:57 UTC 2025-11-10 10:38:02 UTC hello@padlet.com http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g4vipDRamPY/T3CBOUYOqgI/AAAAAAAAEXk/RffbS9K-Z98/s1600/the-hunger-games+mockingjay+bird+pin+on+fire+poster+LARGE.jpg craftiza000 https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/407129870 I prop myself up on one elbow. There’s enough light in the bedroom to see them. My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my mother’s body, their cheeks pressed together. 
      -Cocooned
Being held or protected in a comforting way

]]> 2019-11-05 20:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/407129870 craftiza000 https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/407132454 I swing my legs off the bed and slide into my hunting boots. Supple leather that has molded to my feet.
 I think Suzanne Collins used this term to put a more vivid image in our minds.]]> 2019-11-05 20:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/407132454 craftiza000 https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/407139185 But in district 12 where the word tribute is pretty much a synonym for the word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct.
  -Tribute means a gift, compliment, volunteer, or something deserved. ]]> 2019-11-05 21:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/407139185 https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/409185874
Skewers

The arrow skewers the apple in the pigs mouth and pins it to the wall behind it.

Skewer
To fasten together with a pin or skewer.
In this case it means to go strait through the apple like a skewer 

]]> 2019-11-10 17:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/409185874 https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/409186161 Slated 
District 12 is slated to go last

To criticize severely 
This could show that it was an offense to be last.

]]> 2019-11-10 17:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/409186161 https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/409186615 Sober

His expression is sober

Not effected by alcohol 
In this case it means sad or downcast ]]> 2019-11-10 17:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/409186615 craftiza000 https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/413972864 This word means to think hard about something. I picked this word because I like how instead of saying thought hard, you can write consideration.]]> 2019-11-20 13:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/413972864 craftiza000 https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/413976029 It means looking around while walking I like this word because it just feels like a fun word. The way they used it the book as where her mind wandered from thought to thought.]]> 2019-11-20 13:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/413976029 craftiza000 https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/413978828 Packed can mean to things, to pack a bag, or as it is used in the book, when something is crammed together. I picked this word because I wanted to do something with multiple meanings.]]> 2019-11-20 13:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/craftiza000/bdnft0st8zca/wish/413978828