The Characters
Montag's Neighbor
Who is Clarisse?
The type(s) of figurative language in, "With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world...ruins of history." (pg. 1)
What is a metaphor or personification?
Mildred uses these audio devices, which resemble modern earbuds, to tune out her husband's voice.
What is the seashell radios?
What their official slogan, "...burn em' to ashes, then burn the ashes." represents
What is the disdain or hatred for books?
The symbol on the Fireman's helmets that also represents the burning point of paper.
What is the number 451?
Mildred's Method of Suicide
What is sleeping pills?
The type of figurative language in, "She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock...but moving also toward a new sun."
What is a simile?
The reason Montag and Mildred sleep in separate beds.
What is they are not in love with each other?
What Mildred represents asking to put in a fourth wall TV not caring about how expensive it is.
What is the entertainment and news addiction of society?
The question Clarisse asks Montag that makes him question his content with his job as a fireman?
What is, "Are you happy?"
Beatty's role at the Firestation
Who is Chief?
The type of figurative language found in, "...the violin squeaking of mice, and the great shadowing, motioned silence of the Hound leaping out...had been turned."
What is onomatopoeia?
The meaning of Montag's words when he says "He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a hallow skin...he was not happy...he recognized this as the true state of affairs."
What is Montag's unhappiness with his marriage?
What kids do to each other now in Clarisse's school.
What is killing, and "beating each other up."?
The character who Montag thought was moving as a shadow outside his house.
What is the Hound?
She slipped away from the police
Who is the woman in the house?
The type(s) of figurative language found in, "As he stood there the sky over the house screamed."
What is personification or a hyperbole?
Mildred and Montag have been married for this many years but live like strangers.
What is 10 years?
The classes the students at Clarisse's school takes, that represent the poor education system in their country.
What is TV class, sports, transcription history, and painting?
The reference that comes from Beatty's remark to the old woman at the house referring to the "Tower of Babel."
What is Beatty's suspicious knowledge on the Bible, especially when books are banned?
The man who was arrested for driving too slow, (40 mph) on a highway.
Who is Clarisse's uncle?
The type of figurative language in, "The object gave a dull clink and slid off in the darkness."
What is an oxymoron?
Mildred replaces her relationship with Montag with this by calling the actors on these massive living room screens her "family."
What are the TVs on the parlour walls?
People who think for themselves and have their own ideas like Clarisse McClellan are seen as this.
What are outcasts?
What the sentence, "It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, and turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion." infers about the hound about Montag.
What is that the hound is suspicious about Montag?