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F451- Figurative Language

100

What kind of figurative language does Bradbury use in this sentence: “The people who had been sitting a moment before, tapping their feet to the rhythm of Denham's Dentifrice, Denham's Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham's Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice, one two, one two three”?

What is alliteration?

200

What kind of figurative language does Bradbury use in these lines: “The alarm-voice in the ceiling chanted. There was a tacking-tacking sound as the alarm-report telephone typed out the address across the room.”

What is onomatopoeia?

300

• What kind of figurative language does Bradbury use in this excerpt: “He made more soft sounds.  He stumbled toward the bed and shoved the book clumsily under the cold pillow.  He fell into bed and his wife cried out startled. He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea?

What is a metaphor?

400

• What kind of figurative language does Bradbury use in this sentence: “I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames”?

What is damatic irony?

500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEgtOX2rzLk

What is an allusion?

F451- Themes & More Imagery

100

Five senses used by authour's helps readers to visualize or sense what is happening in a story.

What is imagery?

200

• What theme is developed when Mildred tells Montag about how she is excited to play a part in a television show? Mildred says, “Well, this is a play that comes on the wall-to-wall circuit in ten minutes. They mailed me my part this morning. . . . They write the script with one part missing. It’s a new idea. The homemaker, that’s me, is the missing part.”

What is reliance on technology and pop culture?

300

• The following quote from Clarisse McClellan to Guy Montag shows that Montag lacks independent thinking and, therefore, laughs at Clarisse's words because he doesn't stop to think about everything she says: “You laugh when I haven’t been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I’ve asked you.”

What theme is displayed in this scene that shows how Montag fits into society?

What is conformity?

400

What kind of imagery does Bradbury use in this sentence: “There was a great hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove”?

What is auditory imagery?

500

• What kind of imagery does Bradbury use in this sentence: “His mouth was sucked dry from running. His throat tasted of bloody iron”?

What is gustatory imagery?

Text Structure

100

This structure presents the causal relationship between a specific event, idea, or concept and the events, ideas, or concept that follow.

Example: Weather patterns could be described that explain why a big snowstorm occurred.

What is cause-and-effect structure?

200

This type of structure sets up a problem or problems, explains the solution, and then discusses the effects of the solution.

What is problem-solution structure?

300

This type of text examines the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, concepts, ideas, etc.

Example: A book about ancient Greece may explain how the Spartan women were different from the Athenian women.

What is comparison-contrast structure?

400

This text structure gives readers a chronological of events or a list of steps in a procedure.

Example: A book about the American revolution might list the events leading to the war. In another book, steps involved in harvesting blue crabs might be told.

What is order-sequence structure?

500

This type of text structure features a detailed description of something to give the reader a mental picture.

Example: A book may tell all about whales or describe what the geography is like in a particular region.

What is description structure?

Characterization

100

The author TELLS the audience what the personality of the character is.

What is direct characterization?

200

Sarah left her phone at home on a rainy day for the third time this week. 

What is indirect characterization?

300

• When Guy Montag says, “Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while,” it shows that Clarisse has had an effect on him.  How has Clarisse affected Montag?

What is transforming and changing?

400

An acronym used to help readers understand more about characters in a story through a revealing method.

What is the STEAL method?

500

When Captain Beatty says this about books: “What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.”

What is revealing through indirect characterizarion?

Rhetorical Devices & Literary Techniques in Quotes

100

 ‘Yes laugh.  Go on, laugh.’

What is repetition?

200

• ‘Reading books each day is beneficial and all students should read for at least twenty minutes each day.  Studies have shown that students who read this amount score in the 98th percentile on standardized tests.’

What is logos?

300

• ‘Dentist all over the country recommend this toothbrush.’

What is ethos?

400

"Home is here great is small and the small are great!"

What is chaismus?

500

"Stop making a mountain out of a molehill!"

What is a juxstaposition?