Figurative Language
The degree at which a book burns
what is 451?
Clarisse's description in society.
What is anti-social?
People taking something to numb themselves.
What is sleeping pills/overdosing?
Mildred's age
What is 30?
The firemen's job in this society
What is burning books?
Clarisse being compared to a dial of a small clock.
What is a similie?
Clarisse's hobbies
What is walking in the rain and knitting?
The reason for people not wanting to stand up against the government.
What is the government manipulation?
The reason for Mildred lying cold on the bed.
What is overdosing?
What is in this society, dying with fire?
Mildred's mind being so media focused that Montag wants to rearrange her mind by "taking her mind along to the dry cleaners," (14)
What is personification?
The reason why Clarisse doesn't have any friends
What is kids killing each other and speeding?
The operators' treatment towards Mildred.
What is being irresponsible and in a rush?
The stuff hidden in the ventilator books.
What is books?
A government controlled device to capture people hiding books.
What is the Hound?
The comparison that books are full of life filled with stories of characters while in use just like fish in water.
What is a simile?
Reason why Clarisse's uncle went to jail.
What is going under the speed limit?
The cause of having a fast-driven society.
What is people not knowing "what grass is, or flowers," basically not noticing the little things. (6)?
The hearing device in Mildred's ear.
What is a seashell radio?
The irony of Captain Beatty's knowledge over literature.
What is burning books as a job and inside knowing more then people would think?
The comparison of Clarisse's life filled with warmth and joy while the society around her has a cold feel to it with isolation.
What is the contrast between hot and cold in this society?
Montag's feeling towards Clarisse.
What is feeling like Clarisse refracts his own light to him?
The effect of school not allowing debates/questions in class.
What is the government not wanting overruling and dumbing the students down?
The cost of 4th wall-TV.
What is two thousand dollars?
The irony of Benjamin Franklin being the first fireman.
What is the fact that in real life he was a writer and would never burn books?