Figurative Language
The Salamander and The Phoenix's tone as it begins the novel.
What is being insidious, dangerous, a tone of being poisonous and pernicious?
The symbolism of a salamander (in Myths).
What is having an affinity to fire, lives in fire, and the elemental spirit of fire?
The way Clarisse dies in the novel.
What is how Clarisse dies by getting hit by a speeding car?
The type of connection that Montag and Mildred have in their marriage.
What is the emotionally sad marriage connection between them because they don't remember when they meet nor when they got married?
The way Montag feels towards his job (Start of the novel).
What is he enjoys burning books (his job) that he likes it so much he states, "Kerosene... is nothing but perfume to me?"
The switch between The Salamander, The Phoenix and the way Montag uses the brass nozzle.
What is being a work of art, a masterclass, "playing all the symphonies?"
The government is trying to keep people as uneducated as possible because in the long run it helps them maintain control.
What is the reason students don‘t learn anything educational in school?
She is seen as antisocial and feels there is no point in going to school because everyone thinks she is weird and different.
What is the reason Clarisse doesn’t go to school?
The personality of Mildred as it is shown in the book.
What is having a "box of rocks" personality, not seeing what Montag is going through?
Guy was 20 years old.
What is the age that Guy Montag began his work as a fireman?
"He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other."
The symbolism of burning books in the novel.
What is, being censored, restricted, away from free though, thinking and individuality?
Clarisse introduces herself to Montag, giving her age and a self-description.
What is "I'm seventeen and crazy"
She overdosed on sleeping pills at nighttime before sleeping.
What does Montag know about Mildred that she doesn't know, and rather think it was a wild party?
Firemen pump this specific liquid from their hoses instead of water to destroy houses.
What is kerosene?
"This great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world"
It represents government control, manipulation and the removal of free thinking.
What is the screens including the TV Screens?
The effect on Montag internally and mentally after Clarisse asks him, "Are you happy?"
What is, it lingers and Montag questions himself, where it begins to disturb him?
"He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea"
What is the emotional distance and lack of true connection shown by this metaphor?
The way the Mechanical Hound feels acts toward Montag at work and what The Hound knows.
What is he growls and acts aggressive towards Montag specifically because the Hound knows he is concealing books?
“He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house”.
What is the way books are being described as having more life behind just the paper pages that most see get burned and that every time a book gets burned the living part of it dies?
Benjamin Franklin was the First Firemen
What was the historical figure during the development of the 5 Big Rules?
Clarisse is deeply influenced by this specific family member, who gets arrested for being a pedestrian and teaches her to observe nature.
Who is her uncle?
The way that Montag feels towards Mildred after entering his house after work.
What is he feels disconnected, doesn't know Mildred, and feels that he has entered a stranger's house a "mausoleum?"
The year that the statement said by the women in the burning house, was first said.
What is 1555?