Literary Devices
What literary device is this:
The fire is described as “hungry” and “eating.”
What is Personification?
This is Montag's job at the start of the novel
What is a fireman?
After meeting Clarisse, Montag is motivated to do this for the first time.
What is reflect on his own happiness?
Firemen in this society don’t put out fires — they start them to destroy ____.
What are books?
What type of literary device is this:
“Montag’s smile gripped by his face muscles, like a mask.”
What is a simile?
Clarisse asks Montag this question and makes him start questioning his life.
What is "Are you happy?"
Montag keeps a book from a fire because he wants this.
What is to understand what’s inside/seek knowledge?
Mildred spends most of her time with these.
What are the parlor walls/TV “family”?
What type of literary device is this and what does it tell us about Montag?
“He wore his happiness like a mask.”
What is a simile showing Montag’s joy is fake?
Clarisse’s family is unusual because they spend evenings doing this.
What is talking to each other?
Clarisse walks outside at night because she values this
What is slowing down/observing the world?
Clarisse is called “antisocial” because she does this.
What is talks and asks questions?
What does this quote show?
“Her bedroom was like a cold mausoleum.”
What is a metaphor for Mildred’s emptiness and lifelessness?
Montag finds Mildred in this state early in the book.
What is unconscious from overdosing on sleeping pills?
Mildred pressures Montag to conform because she values this above all else.
What is fitting in with society?
Conformity in this society ensures people don’t do this.
What is think for themselves?
Books symbolize this in the novel.
What is knowledge, meaning, and truth?
Beatty explains that firemen’s role is not to spread knowledge but to do this.
What is destroy it?
Beatty mocks Clarisse-like people because he fears this.
What is independent thought?
The old woman chooses to die with her books because she believes they represent this.
What is freedom of thought/knowledge?