Figure of Speech
"Her dress was white and it whispered" (Bradbury 2).
What is personification?
This symbol is used to depict firemen in the story.
What is a salamander.
This is the profession of the main protagonist, Guy Montag
What is a fireman?
"One of them slid down into your stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well looking for all the old water and the old time gathered there" (Bradbury 9).
What is a simile?
This is a symbol of destruction used to denote censorship within the novel.
What is fire?
This is what Montag discovers when he arrives home from work.
What is his wife overdosed?
Guy Montag's job might be a bit ____ because firefights start fires instead of putting them out.
What is ironic?
This symbols is depicted to represent a character in the book. Montag uses it as a descriptor for Clarisse. It is often used to help readers think of the character is good, innocent, hopeful.
What is light?
Mildred want to build this in their T.V. room.
What is a fourth-wall?
"With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins" (Bradbury 1)
of history.
What is a metaphor?
This symbol is used multiple times by Clarisse to depict the harsh realities of the America of Fahrenheit 451 as she points out that people don't enjoy themselves or their surroundings.
What is flowers?
This is who Montag tells Clarisse to see.
Who is her psychiatrist?
"She was quite obviously waiting for him to go. 'I didn’t do that,' she said. 'Never in a billion years'" (Bradbury 13).
What is hyperbole?
This symbol is use to depict conformity and ignorance.
What is the robot hound?
Montag gets chased by this thing.
What is a robot hound?