Symbols
This symbolizes rebirth, cleansing, transformation.
What is the river?
1 lit. device: "The books leapt and danced...."
What is personification?
“She's nothing to me; she shouldn't have had books. It was her responsibility, she should've thought of that. I hate her. She's got you going, and next thing you know we'll be out, no house, no job, nothing." This was said by ________.
Who is Mildred?
"It'll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed.” Said by ___.
Who is Mildred?
Ironically, knows literature well.
Who is Beatty?
These symbolize distraction, isolation.
What are the seashells?
Lit device: "There was a silly d--- bird called a Phoenix..."
What is allusion?
"Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking. It's like being a pedestrian, only rarer. My uncle was arrested another time- did I tell you?- for being a pedestrian." Said by _______.
Who is Clarisse?
"When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. He was also a very kind man who had a lot of love to give the world, and he helped clean up the slum in our town.....when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for all the things he did." Said by ____.
Who is Granger?
Intelligent but cowardly at first.
Who is Faber?
This symbolizes destruction.
What is fire?
1 Lit. Device: "The fire was gone and then back again like a winking eye."
What is simile? or What is personification?
"Oh, no! You weren't fooled by that little idiot's routine, now, were you? Flowers, butterflies, leaves, sunsets, oh hell! It's all in her file." Said by_____.
Who is Beatty?
"They run us around so ragged by the end of the day we can't do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place.....” Said by ______ .
Who is Clarisse?
Leader of intellectuals outside the city.
Who is Granger?
This symbolizes secret guidance, resistance, and hidden communication.
What is the green bullet?
1 lit. device (besides imagery): "Lights flicked on and house doors opened all down the street to watch the carnival set up."
What is metaphor?
“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something's missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I'd burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought maybe books would help." Said by____.
Who is Montag?
"No one has time any more for anyone else. You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow." Said by _____.
Who is Clarisse?
Cries when Montag reads poetry.
Who is Mrs. Phelps?
This is the symbol of firemen as well as what the firetrucks are called.
What is salamander?
3 literary devices: “The firehouse stood a dark cave, its doors like jaws waiting to close.”
What are metaphor, personification, and simile?
"Number one, as I said, quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it.” Said by ____.
Who is Faber?
"Anyway, Pete and I always said, no tears, nothing like that. It's our third marriage each and we're independent." Said by _____.
Who is Mrs. Phelps?
Gets angry when Montag reads poetry.
Who is Mrs. Bowles?