Plot
Who said it?
Literary Devices
Symbolism
Lit Devices 2
100
“And then he was a shrieking blaze…”
What is climax?
100
It was a pleasure to burn.
Who is Montag?
100
"It was like a great bee"
What is simile?
100
Symbolizes fire.
What is salamander?
100
"He says I'm a regular onion. I keep him busy pulling away the layers"
What is metaphor?
200
“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened, changed.”
What is exposition?
200
I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly. If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he’d say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles per hour and they jailed him for two days. Isn’t that funny, and sad, too?
Who is Clarisse?
200
"I didn't do that. Never in a billion years" (Bradbury 20).
What is hyperbole?
200
Symbolizes people’s ability to rise from the ashes.
What is the phoenix?
200
"The mechanical hound slept, but it did not sleep, lived but did not live" (Bradbury 24).
What is paradox?
300
Yes, thought Montag, that’s the one I’ll save for noon. For noon… When we reach the city.”
What is resolution?
300
"With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word `intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar."
Who is Beatty?
300
"It's eight legs spidered under it on rubber padded paws" (Bradbury 24).
What is alliteration?
300
Symbolizes peoples desire to be entertained.
What is television?
300
What is the motif represented in the following quote: "one, Clarisse, two Mildred, Three uncle, four fire."
What is rain?
400
“the fire snapped the hound up in the air.”
What is falling action?
400
She's nothing to me; she shouldn't have had books. It was her responsibility, she should have thought of that. I hate her. She's got you going and next thing you know we'll be out, no house, no job, nothing.
Who is Mildred?
400
What mood is created in the following quote: "Lights flicked on and the house doors opened all down the street, to watch the carnival set up."
What is celebratory or joyful?
400
Symbolizes the government’s way to distract the people from the real problems in society.
What is war?
400
What motif is represented in the following quote “It had to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.”
What is change?
500
What theme is represented in the following quote “It had to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.”
What is change?
500
Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.
Who is Montag?
500
"And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin"
What is situational irony, alliteration, and metaphor?
500
Symbolizes Clarisse’s impact on Montag and how his world is torn into a million pieces after he meets her.
What is the dandelion?
500
"Play the man master Radley"
What is allusion?