Friendship is like peeing your pants; everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth.
100
“Mrs. Montag, Mrs. Montag” (Bradbury 50).
Alliteration
100
“The Hearth & the Salamander” (Bradbury).
symbols
100
“‘Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘em to ashes, then burn the ashes’” (Bradbury 6).
alliteration
200
Define foreshadow
hints or clues about what is going to happen in a literary work
200
Create and example of methaphor
Eyes are the windows to the soul/ Ball is life
200
“The books lay like great mounds of fishes left to dry” (35).
simile
200
“But Montag did not move and only stood thinking of the ventilator grill in the hall at home and what lay hidden behind the grill” (Bradbury 24).
foreshadow
200
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood...
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
—Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" speech
parallel syntax
300
Define suspense
a feeling of uncertainty caused by unknown that keeps you "on the edge of your seat" and want to keep reading
“Classics cut to fit fifteen minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two minute book column, winding up at last as a ten-or twelve line dictionary resume” (Bradbury 52).
hyperbole
300
“Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow” (Bradbury 11).
simile
400
Define parallell syntax
same sentence structure repeated to create effect
400
Give me an example of onomatopoeia
Zoom! was a show I was on when I was little.
400
“Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones” (Jackson 1).
foreshadow
400
“As he stood there the sky over the house screamed” (Bradbury 11).
personification
400
“‘Come on now, we are going to build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them” (Bradbury 157).
symbol
500
Define symbol
an object, animal, product, shape or sign (thing) used to represent an abstract idea or concept
500
Create an example of a 4 word alliteration
Fierce flying fish flip
500
“For a minute, no one moved, and then all the slips of paper were opened. Suddenly, all the women began to speak at once, saving, ‘Who is it?,’ ‘Who's got it?,’ ‘Is it the Dunbars?,’ ‘Is it the Watsons?’” (Jackson 6).
suspense
500
"'Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, 'is nothing but perfume to me'" (Bradbury).
metaphor
500
“The magic is only what books say, how they stitched together the patches of the universe together into one garment for us” (79).