All 6 Uses of
hysteria
in
Hunger Games Book #2 (Catching Fire)
- Caesar is beside himself, the Capitol audience is hysterical, shots of crowds around Panem show a country besotted with happiness.†
Chpt 5hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- I'm cold and wet and winded, but my escape attempt has done nothing to subdue the hysteria rising up inside me.†
Chpt 13 *
- A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage.†
Chpt 14hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- I simply fix my eyes on a point far in the distance and pretend there is no audience, no hysteria.†
Chpt 15
- Suddenly I remember how she volunteered to replace the young, hysterical woman in her district.†
Chpt 16hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- "No. It's not—" I get out, but I'm cut off by an even more hysterical round of sobbing that seems only to confirm what Finnick said about the baby.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
a state of excessive, uncontrollable emotion
In addition to being the adjective form of hysteria, the form hysterical can also indicate that something is exceedingly funny (leading to uncontrollable laughter)