Burnin Up
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Unfinished Business
100

Wrote F451

Who is Ray Bradbury?


100

The opposition of two or more forces

What is conflict?

100

A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using like or as

What is a simile?

100

To spread or scatter freely or widely

What is to diffuse?

100

My teacher told me I could improve my report by removing _________ material. 

What is superfluous?

200

Is unique and likes conversations

Who is Clarisse?

200

Occurs between a character and his own thoughts, emotions, or beliefs

What is internal conflict?

200

The use of an obvious over-exaggeration to emphasize a point or to be humorous

What is hyperbole?

200

To triumph over

What is to surmount?

200

The researchers found that constant fighting and ______ conduct was common among bull seals as they defend their territory against danger.

What is pugnacious? 

300

Mildred wears these in her ears

What are seashells?

300

The recurring idea about the world that is found in a piece of literature

What is the theme?

300

The use of a word whose sound limits or suggests its meaning

What is onomatopoeia?

300

A break, breach, or split

What is a rift?

300

I have been ________ of that tabloid newspaper ever since I  read an article insisting that green men had just landed from Mars and taken over the government of the world. 

What is skeptical?

400

Clarisse asks Montag a question that will make him think

What is, "Are you happy?"

400

The reader must infer character traits from the information shown by the author

What is indirect characterization?

400

Comparing two unlike things without using the connective words like, as, than, or resembles

What is a metaphor?

400

To seize and hold position by force or without the right

What is to usurp?

400

In the movie The African Queen, Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn find themselves trying to pull their boat out of a thick _______ that harbors not only mud but leeches. 

What is mire?

500

451 represents

What is the temperature at which paper burns?

500

Literature that is written to persuade the reader to expouse the author's position on a significant issue of his or her time

What is propaganda?

500

A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human

What is personification?

500

When something is hard to do or requires much effort

What is arduous?

500

In his essay, "A Modest Proposal", Jonathan Swift uses irony, sarcasm, and mocking exaggeration to present a(n) portrait of the plight of the Irish people in the 1720s. 

What is sardonic?

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