Show:
Quotes
Plot
Symbolism
Figurative Language
Characters
100
“People don’t talk about anything . . .They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.”
Who is Clarisse?
100

How can the reader deduce that Clarisse was killed but not by accident?

What is Beatty knows who she and her family are and alludes to how they are "different."

100
What type of factory does Granger say the society will need to build?
What is a mirror factory?
100
“He opened the bedroom door. It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon has set.”
What is simile?
100

Who is the free spirit: the one who follows whims and dreams; the one who questions the way things are done?

Who is Clarisse?

200

 "Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”

Who is Faber?

200
What is the ultimate reason Montag kills Beatty?
What is Beatty was going to track down Faber?
200
What symbol represents “destruction” at first and later “comfort and security”?
What is fire?
200
“‘…but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don’t; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film teacher.’”
What is onomatopoeia?
200

Who is the oblivious one: the one easily persuaded about the way things should be done; the one who doesn’t want to make any trouble?

Who is Mildred?

300
"Thought! Was I given a choice? My grandfather and father were firemen. In my sleep, I ran after them."
Who is Montag?
300

Why is the woman (Mrs. Blake) still at the house they’re going to burn?

What is she wants to be in control of her own life and wants to show the firemen what they are really doing.

300

Character names that are carefully selected to show their interactions in the plot

What is Montag-Faber, Clarisse?

300
“‘He says I’m a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.’”
What is metaphor?
300

Who is the pessimist: the one who doesn’t want to get involved; the one who wants to hide out and find his own peace?

Who is Faber?

400
“The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.”
Who is Granger?
400

What plot event convinces Montag that the government is spreading misinformation?

What is the media shows the hunting and killing of another citizen who the media claims is Montag. (He watches this on a portable TV with Granger.)

400
What symbol does Bradbury leave the reader with that assures that the city will be rebuilt?
What is a phoenix?
400
“He felt his chest chopped down and split apart [because the sound was so loud].
What is hyperbole?
400

Who is confused: the one who puzzles over the way things are done; the one who changes by what is presented?

Who is Montag?

500
Well, here comes a very strange beast which in all tongues is called a fool."
Who is Beatty?
500
Faber tells Montag that three things are missing concerning citizens’ enjoyment of books. What are they?
What are quality of information, leisure, and the opportunity to act on the first two.
500

Which section title symbolizes the citizens' inability to retain information?

What is the sieve and the sand?

500
“I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.”
What is irony?
500

Who is the savior: the one who wants to resurrect society by remembering the past?

Who is Granger?