Characters
This person is the protagonist of Fahrenheit 451.
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using the words, "like" or "as."
What is simile?
This is the person Montag murdered in front of his home.
Who is Captain Beatty?
This symbol is used repeatedly throughout the all three parts of Fahrenheit 451.
What is fire?
Who is Faber?
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
This person was the final informant for Montag's house.
Who is Mildred?
This is a symbol rises from the ashes.
What is a phoenix?
This person is the leader of the people by the river.
Who is Granger?
This type of figurative language uses extreme exaggeration. (You snore louder than a freight train.)
What is hyperbole?
This is the book Montag memorized and is what he can bring to the group of men by the tracks.
What is Ecclesiastes?
These are concepts that fire represents in the novel.
What are: knowledge, rebirth, awareness, destruction, self-awareness
These are the men by the river.
Who are hobos? or Who are homeless men?
This type of figurative language gives life-like qualities to inanimate objects. (The sun greeted me this morning.)
What is personification?
This is what ultimately is responsible for destroying the city at the end of the novel.
What is war?
This concept is described as the "iron fist."
What are bombs and/or war?
As told by Beatty before he was murdered by Montag, this fictional character flew too close to the sun.
Who is Phaeton?
This type of figurative language is a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.
What is allusion?
This is the newly presumed leader of the book covers.
Who is Montag?
Based on Montag's description of the city, what is presumed to have happened to Millie?
What is, she was killed while in a hotel that got bombed?