Fahrenheit 451-1
What was Ray Bradbury’s main purpose for writing Fahrenheit 451?
To warn people about a future without books
This is the name of the toothpaste advertised on the subway that provokes Montag.
What is Denham’s Dentifrice?
Describe the person that the government killed in place of Montag.
A random man
What type of figurative language is being used in the following: “How like a mirror too, her face.”
simile
What book does Montag want Faber to help him understand
The Bible
Why is it important that Montag recalls the childhood memory of his mother lighting a candle?
It shows how that brief moment of not having electricity helped him connect with his mother.
What does Faber give to Montag in order to communicate with him?
A green earpiece they called a "bullet"
How do Montag, Granger, and the other men keep knowledge of books?
Memorize them
figurative language is being used in the following italicized words: “Life becomes one big pratfall, Montag; everything BANG, BOFF, and WOW!”
Onomatopoeia
This is the person who must have turned Montag in for having books.
Mildred
What feeling does Montag have that may indicate that Clarisse was not hit by a car after all?
He walks on the railroad tracks in the country and feels as if she walked them before
This is the woman that cries over the poetry Montag read
Mrs. Phelps
What city does Faber tell Montag to meet him?
St. Louis
What type of figurative language seems contradictory but has a deeper meaning?
paradox
What type of figurative language is being used in the following italicized words: “This is a beautiful mess you have made!”
Oxymoron
What event in part 1 is considered an “inciting incident” in the progression of the plot in this novel?
Clarisse asks Montag if he was happy
At the end of section 2, whose house does Beatty take Montag to burn?
His own house
This is the name of the book from the Bible that Montag learned.
What is "the Book of Ecclesiastes?"
What type of figurative language is a figure of speech in which two seemingly opposite elements are juxtaposed next to each other?
oxymoron
What city did Montag and Mildred first met
Chicago
Name one of things that the McClellan's do to be classified as
“peculiar"?
Talk to each other, leave the lights on in their house, or walk around.
Why did Montag stop on the way to Faber’s and stash a book in Mrs. Black’s house?
She was a wife to one of the firemen, and it was part of the plan to plant books in firemen’s homes.
What realization stops Montag in his tracks as he flees to the river and causes him to sob?
Beatty wanted to die
Two very different items placed in the same location for effect (e.g., baby at a funeral) - starting with letter "J"
Juxtaposition
What three things are “missing” from society, according to Faber?
Quality, leisure, and the freedom to do the other two things.