People and Plot
This is the official symbol worn on the firemen's helmets, suggesting their authority and destructive power. It's also the name of the engines they drive.
What is a salamander?
The banning of books and mandatory burning is a primary example of this dystopian characteristic from our notes.
What is government control?
Beatty argues that books are harmful because they cause conflict and sadness, an appeal primarily to this rhetorical move.
What is pathos?
It's the figurative device seen here: "A book is a loaded gun in the house next door."
What is metaphor?
A five letter word to describe the diction here:"Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean."
H _ R _ H
What is HARSH?
This character has an emotional reaction to Montag's poetry reading.
Who is Mrs. Phelps?
Mildred's obsession with the parlor walls and her electric bees demonstrates this dystopian characteristic from our notes.
What is technological control?
Faber uses his knowledge of books and their value, along with his role as a retired professor, to persuade Montag, which demonstrates this rhetorical move.
What is ethos?
It's the figurative device demonstrated here: "The books fell like snow."
What is simile?
A six letter word to describe the diction here:
"Doesn't everyone look nice!"
"Nice."
"You look fine, Millie."
"Fine."
"Everyone looks swell."
"Swell."
S _ M _ _ E
What is SIMPLE?
After escaping the city, Montag meets a group of intellectuals who preserve literature by doing this.
What is memorizing books?
Mildred and her friends exemplify this dystopian characteristic from our notes, where everyone holds the same superficial, passive values, resulting in a lack of unique thought.
What is loss of individuality?
Faber uses this rhetorical move when he outlines the three necessary elements for a healthy society: quality information, leisure to digest it, and the right to act on it.
What is logos?
When Bradbury writes that the fire "ate the house and the night," it is an example of this figurative device.
What is personification?
A seven letter word to describe the diction here: "He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact."
P _ _ T _ C
What is POETIC?
Montag uses this device to transmit information and communicate with Professor Faber.
What is the green bullet?
This dystopian characteristic from our notes is seen when the city is destroyed by war.
What is environmental destruction?
What is rhetorical question?
The constant presence of the parlor walls, the repeated distraction of the seashells, and the recurring idea of superficial entertainment are all examples of this device.
What is motif?
An eight letter word to describe the diction here: "He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Empty, of course, empty. What was there to find?"
N _ _ A _ _ _ E
What is NEGATIVE?
This person tells Montag, "Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there."
Who is Granger?
After fleeing the city, Montag jumps into the river so that he will not get stung by the Mechanical Hound and die, which is an example of this dystopian characteristic from our notes.
What is survival?
It's the rhetorical strategy Captain Beatty uses with Montag when he says, "We're the Happiness Boys."
What is pathos?
It's the type of statement that applies to the whole novel seen here: Unchecked government censorship, fueled by society's preference for instant gratification and intellectual conformity, ultimately leads to the destruction of individual thought.
What is theme statement?
A nine letter word to describe the diction here: "There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing."
E _ _ _ I _ _ _ L
What is EMOTIONAL?