Literary Devices
What type of literary device is found in the following quote,
“With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head…”
What is personification?
Which dystopian element is it when Clarisse says they are not allowed to ask questions in school and they don't really learn any real information.
What is restrictions on personal thoughts, education, or freedom?
Which character from Farenheit 451 represents ignorance and conformity?
What is Mildred
In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, what object symbolizes knowledge?
What are books?
The type of government that is used to model the one in Fahrenheit 451.
What is communism
Bradbury changes his writing style or __________ with his use of the following quote:
“Speed up the film, Montag, quick. Click, Pic, Look, Eye, Now, Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace, Up, Down, In, Our, Why, How, Who, What, Where, Uh! Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom!”
What is diction
Identify the dystopian element shown in the passage:
“She was a time bomb…. She didn’t want to know how a thing was done, but why. … You ask why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl’s better off dead.”
What is What is Individuality and dissent are eliminated?
This character shows Montag he can fight for what is important. She inspires him to start to read and change.
Who is the Book Lady?
What two literary devices are within this quote?
"Her dress was white and it whispered." (page 3)
What are alliteration and personification?
The historical time period that served as the inspiration for To Kill a Mockingbird and explains why families like the Cunninghams and Ewells do not attend school.
What is the Great Depression?
“Now you tell your father not to teach you anymore. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the damage – your father does not know how to teach.”
What literary device is employed with this quote?
What is irony?
The parlour walls and Seashells depict which dystopian element?
What is
This character is motivated by pride and moved into the Finches to be a role model for Scout.
Who is Aunt Alexandra?
Identify which type of mood is depicted in the passage below: Excited or Ominous
With this thought in mind, I made perhaps one step per minute. I moved faster when I saw Jem far ahead beckoning in the moonlight. We came to the gate that divided the garden from the back yard. Jem touched it. The gate squeaked. C. Excited D. Detached
What is ominous?
This character is a foil to Miss Maudie.
Who is Aunt Alexandra?
"I never understood her preoccupation with heredity. Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was."
What is the tone of this passage?
What is confused?
What dystopian element does the hound best depict when it is sent to sniff around Montag's house?
What is citizens are under constant surveillance?
These two characters represent power and oppression in Fahrenheit 451.
Who are Captain Beatty and the Hound
What theme does this quote support?
“If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it.”
What is understanding/compassion/golden rule
The tone that is present in this quote about the war conflict of Fahrenheit 451, "The jet bombers going over, going over, going over, one two, one two, one two, six of them, nine of them, twelve of them, and one and one and one and another and another and another, did all the screaming for him.”
What is an ominous and repetitive tone?
What tone is shown in the following quote? Identify three words to support your response.
“As he stood there the sky over the house screamed. There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black lines down the seam…The jet bombers going over, going over, going over, one two, one two, one two, six of them, nine of them, twelve of them, and one and one and one and another and another and another, did all the screaming for him.”
What is ominous, intense, loud, frightening, repetitive.
House screamed
giant hands tearing a seam
jet bombers going over, going over, one two, one two
"Each man in the image of the other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against." (Page 58)
Which dystopian element is this?
What is citizens conform
“Jem and I had considerable faith in _____________. She had never told on us, had never played cat-and-mouse with us, she was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend.”
Who is Scout referring to?
Who is Miss Maudie?
What theme is portrayed below;
“You know what’s going to happen as well as I do, Jack, and I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through it without bitterness, and most of all, without catching Maycomb’s usual disease.”
What is prejudice?
This part of the setting is established in the quote, “The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk...”
What is the setting's time and place?