Figurative Language
"It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon has set."
What is a simile?
Montags first impression of Clarisse.
What is strange/odd?
Society sees Clarisse as this.
What is antisocial?
The hound has this many legs.
What is 8?
Mildred had an earpiece, and they were called this.
What is Seashells?
"A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it."
What is personification?
Montag hides his books in this specific place.
What is inside the ventilator grill in the hallway?
According to Mildred, Clarisse dies from this.
What is run over by car?
The Hound has an aggressive reaction towards Montag due to this.
What is the change in the Hounds combination of memory?
The day after the overdose, Mildred constantly repeats these words while thinking about what happened to her.
What is "I'm hungry"?
"Titles glittered their golden eyes, falling, gone."
What is personification?
Montag feels this way towards his wife.
What is emotionally disconnected?
This relative of Clarisse, who was once arrested for driving too slowly, is her main source of information about the past.
What is her uncle?
This chief officer of the firehouse notices Montag's strange behavior and tells him the Hound only thinks what they program it to think.
Who is Captain Beatty?
When Mildred overdoses, she takes about this many pills.
What is 30-40?
"With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world..."
What is a metaphor?
Montag envies these two things from Clarisse.
What is happiness and family bond?
Clarisse tells Montag that she hates this high-tech school activity, which replaces actual discussion with film projectors.
What is TV class?
The firemen let loose these small animals in the firehouse to watch the Hound hunt and kill them for sport.
What is rats, chickens, and cats?
This is the job title of the two men who arrive to help Mildred rather than actual medical doctors.
What is operators/technicians?
When the medical technicians help Mildred, Montag uses this animal metaphor to describe the tube sliding down her throat.
What is a black cobra/snake?
"And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry." This emotion signifies Guy's true feelings for Mildred.
What is inauthenticity?
Clarisse uses this type item to test whether Montag is truly in love.
What is a dandelion?
"Only the man with the Captain's hat and the sign of the Phoenix on his hat, at last, curious, his playing cards in his thin hand, talked across the long room." In ancient myths, the Phoenix represents this.
What is the symbolism that humanity will finally learn from its mistakes and rise again like the phoenix?
Mildred is known to talk to her "relatives" in her walls, and she has a better relationship when them than with Guy. This shows that Mildred is this.
What is out of touch with reality?