A magical bird in ancient stories that lives for 500 years, burns itself on a funeral pyre, and then is reborn from the ashes.
What is a Phoenix?
100
This person said, "What is there about fire that's so lovely? … Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences."
Who is Captain Beatty?
100
"He is as smart as a fox" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
100
This person turns in Montag to Captain Beatty.
Who is Mildred (and/or her friends?)
100
Montag remembers meeting Mildred here.
Where is Chicago?
200
To cause someone to appear guilty for a crime
What is incriminate?
200
This person said, "It's strange, I don't miss her…Even if she dies…I don't think I'll feel sad."
Who is Guy Montag?
200
"She is a light" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
200
They live on the outskirts of the city. They memorize the books and then burn them. They are waiting for the end to write down the books again.
Who are the hobos and Granger?
200
Montag has to burn his house because he is afraid of this.
What is the Mechanical Hound?
300
Voluntary punishment in order to show that you are sorry for some wrongdoing
What is penance?
300
This person said, "And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we've got one damn thing the Phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did."
Who is Granger?
300
"The fire roared" is an example of this.
What is personification?
300
Montag memorizes this and preserves it.
What are the Book of Revelations and Ecclesiastes?
300
Montag kills Beatty with the flame thrower because this happens.
What is his hand pulls the trigger without his brain knowing what he is doing?
400
A pile of wood used for burning a body as a funeral rite
What is a pyre?
400
This person said, "And when the war's over, some day, some year, the books can be written again, the people will be called in, one by one, to recite what they know…"
Who is Faber?
400
It symbolizes rebirth
What is the phoenix?
400
The Mechanical Hound kills this person during the chase. It is broadcasted on the parlor walls.
Who is an innocent man?
400
Granger thinks fire does this.
What is destroys responsibility and consequences?
500
Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty. AND/OR
Of or relating to art or beauty
What is aesthetic?
500
This person said, "Come on now, we're going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them."
Who is Granger?
500
It symbolizes destruction.
What is fire?
500
Montag notices this about the fire when he meets Granger and his men.
What is a fire that is warming instead of destroying?
500
Granger says humankind is smarter than the Phoenix because of this reason.
What is we are able to learn from our mistakes and one day we will stop making "funeral pyres?"